title: A new species of striped Ichthyophis Fitzinger, 1826 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Myanmar.
abstract: A new species of striped ichthyophiid caecilian, Ichthyophis multicolor sp. nov., is described on the basis of morphological and molecular data from a sample of 14 specimens from Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar. The new species resembles superficially the Indian I. tricolor Annandale, 1909 in having both a pale lateral stripe and an adjacent dark ventrolateral stripe contrasting with a paler venter. It differs from I. tricolor in having many more annuli, and in many details of cranial osteology, and molecular data indicate that it is more closely related to other Southeast Asian Ichthyophis than to those of South Asia. The caecilian fauna of Myanmar is exceptionally poorly known but is likely to include chikilids as well as multiple species of Ichthyophis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology!, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK; Email: m.wilkinson@nhm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin New Zealand; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Bronwen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Presswell
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology!, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sherratt
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology!, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 41809, USA; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Papadopoulou
authors.affiliation: Affiliation: unknown; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Gower
mesh_terms: D000663:Amphibians / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D002052:Myanmar; D010802:Phylogeny; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D004247:DNA