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{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}
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| image =
| status = DD
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |date=2012 |title=''Ichthyophis khumhzi'' |volume=2012 |article-number=e.T190990A1965467 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T190990A1965467.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Ichthyophis khumhzi
| authority = Kamei ''et al.'', 2009<ref name="Authority" />
}}

'''''Ichthyophis khumhzi''''', the '''Khumhzi striped ichthyophis''', is a species of [[caecilian]] found in India.<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /><ref name="Authority">{{cite journal |author=Kamei, R. G. |author2=M. Wilkinson |author3=D. J. Gower |author4=S. D. Biju |name-list-style=amp |year=2009 |title=Three new species of striped ''Ichthyophis'' (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from the northeast Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2267 |issue=1 |pages=26–42 |url=http://www.bmnh.org/PDFs/RK_09.pdf |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2267.1.2}}</ref><ref name=frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Gymnophiona/Ichthyophiidae/Ichthyophis/Ichthyophis-khumhzi |title=''Ichthyophis khumhzi'' Kamei, Wilkinson, Gower, and Biju, 2009 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2015 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=10 October 2015}}</ref> It has narrow and irregular lateral yellow stripes. It can attain lengths larger than {{convert|400|mm|in|abbr=on}}. Its head is V-shaped while short; the animal shows scales as far anterior as its collars. The species is named after Khumhzi village, where the specimens were first collected.<ref name="Authority" />

==Description==
This species counts with 127 [[vertebra]]e. The head, nuchal region and trunk are dorsoventrally compressed, with its body's maximal girth being near the midbody. Its tail is not upturned towards the tip. The animal's head is short, with a length of about {{convert|25.6|mm|in|abbr=on}}. Its eyes are equidistant from the lip and the top of the head, and are surrounded by a narrow whitish ring; its eye diameter approximates 0.6 mm, about the same as its nares', which are slightly anterior to level of the anterior margin of its mouth. Its teeth are slender and recurved, while its tongue is strongly plicate posteriorly. Its [[Posterior nasal apertures|choanae]] are very narrow, the distance between them being five or six times their greatest width.<ref name="Authority" />

Denticulations present around its vent are poorly defined. While in preservation, the animal is of a pale lavender grey colour, with browner patches where [[stratum corneum]] is absent. Lateral stripes extending until about the fifth or sixth last [[annulus (zoology)|annuli]], broaden slightly. Narrow and pale lines are strongly marked along the margins of its lower jaw. In life, its [[Dorsum (anatomy)|dorsum]] is a dark brownish grey, while the [[ventral|venter]] is reddish grey, and its narrow lateral stripes a dull-yellow.<ref name="Authority" />

==Distribution==
This species has only been observed in its [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]], near the river Agoh in [[Manipur]] and [[Nagaland]], India.<ref name="Authority" /><ref name=frost/>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Nishikawa, Kanto, Masafumi Matsui, and Nikolai L. Orlov. "A new striped ''Ichthyophis'' (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Kon Tum Plateau, Vietnam." Current Herpetology 31.1 (2012): 28–37.
*Nishikawa, Kanto, et al. "A new striped ''Ichthyophis'' (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) from Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia." Current Herpetology 32.2 (2013): 159–169.

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[[Category:Ichthyophis|khumhzi]]
[[Category:Amphibians described in 2009]]
[[Category:Endemic amphibians of India]]

Ichthyophis khumhzi - Revision history

Aspireitacademy at 04:15, 18 December 2025