| Maharashtra caecilian | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Gymnophiona |
| Family: | Caeciliidae |
| Genus: | Indotyphlus |
| Species: | I. maharashtraensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Indotyphlus maharashtraensis Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003 |
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Indotyphlus maharashtraensis is a species caecilians that was described in 2004 by scientists of Bombay Natural History Society and the Natural History Museum, London. It is only the second species of Indotyphlus known to science and was discovered from Koyna, Satara district, Maharashtra (India).
VARAD GIRI, DAVID J. GOWER & MARK WILKINSON A new species of Indotyphlus Taylor (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 739: 1–19 (2004)