Broad-striped caecilian

Broad-striped caecilian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Gymnophiona
Family: Ichthyophiidae
Genus: Caudacaecilia
Species: C. asplenia
Binomial name
Caudacaecilia asplenia
(Taylor, 1965)

The broad-striped caecilian, Caudacaecilia asplenia, is a species of amphibian in the Ichthyophiidae family found in Malaysia and possibly Thailand. It is also known as Boven Mahakkam caecilian and Malayan caecilian. It is only known with certainty from Mahakam River and Matang Hunting Reserve Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.

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