Figure 1. Distribution details of Ichthyophis kodaguensis in Western Ghats

Image 1. Ichthyophis kodaguensis in life from Basarekattae, Western Ghats

Table 1. Morphometric and meristic details of Ichthyophis kodaguensis from new locality and type locality, Western Ghats.

Reg No.	ZSI/WGRC/V/A/645A	ZSI/WGRC/V/A/645B	4179*	4180*	4181*	4182*	4183*	4184*	4185*
Total length	265	232	267	269	247	262	274	268	158
Head length	8.0	7.0	5.3	8.3	8.0	8.4	9.0	-	5.9
Head width at jaw angle	7.8	6.4	7.5	7.4	7.3	6.7	7.8	-	5.3
Distance between nostrils	2.0	1.6	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1	-	1.6
Distance between tentacles	6.0	5.0	5.7	5.2	5.2	5.0	5.3	-	3.9
Distance between tentacle and snout tip	4.5	4.0	4.5	3.3	3.6	3.5	4.3	-	3.2
Distance between tentacle and jaw angle	4.0	3.6	4.7	4.5	4.6	4.6	5.1	-	3.5
Distance between tentacle and nostril	3.0	2.8	2.9	2.6	2.5	2.7	2.5	-	1.9
Distance from eye to tentacle	2.0	1.6	1.9	2.0	1.7	1.7	2.0	-	1.3
Total number of primary annuli	307	309	295	278	292	306	305	299	284
Tail folds	7	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Number of premaxillary-maxillary teeth	48	46	48	43	45	42	49	48	38
Number of vomeropalatine teeth	47	48	50	43	47	44	50	52	41
Number of dentary teeth	44	43	40	42	38	39	43	44	33
Number of splenial teeth	28	27	26	25	26	28	31	30	-

* data from Wilkinson et al. 2007