Systematics of the caecilian family Chikilidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) with the description of three new species of Chikila from northeast India Author Kamei, Rachunliu G. Author Gower, David J. Author Wilkinson, Mark Author Biju, S. D. text Zootaxa 2013 3666 4 401 435 journal article 43483 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.4.1 ae8b490a-b325-4d9f-90ed-ba0721b3bf5b 1175-5326 246458 15114087-1781-4D4D-9B06-FD29490E0C25

TABLE 3D. Some morphometric (in mm) and meristic data of Chikila gaiduwani sp. nov. Specimen numbers without acronym refer to SDB.DU numbers. Other abbreviations as in Table 3A.

Museum no.	ZSI A11543	ZSI A11541	ZSI A11542	BNHS 5495	BNHS 5498	1560	BNHS 5497	BNHS 5499	1535	BNHS 5500
Status Sex	H f	P f	P f	P f	P f	RS f	RS f	RS f	RS f	P m
Length PAs	251 94	240 95	212 94	253 90	184 97	214 91	235 95	164 92	221 91	215 93
First PA with a SAG SAGs	80 15	88 8	85 10	79 12	84 14	84 8	86 10	82 10	83 8	81 13
First PA with dorsally complete SAG	84	89	85	79	90	84	89	85	84	85
First PA with ventrally complete SAGs Ventrally complete SAGs	91 2	none 0	92 2	84 4	none 0	none 0	none 0	none 0	89 2	91 1
TGs on C1 TGs on C2	1 2	1 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	1 2
LH ST–CM Mandible tip–NG1 Mandible tip–CM C1 length	8.5 5.6 7.0 4.0 1.9	8.1 6.0 6.7 4.4 2.1	7.2 5.3 5.7 3.7 1.9	7.8 6.0 6.3 4.3 2.1	6.5 4.7 5.1 3.4 1.3	7.2 5.2 4.8 3.8 1.9	7.7 6.0 6.6 4.7 2.0	7.5 4.3 4.5 3.1 1.4	7.4 6.1 6.4 4.5 1.8	7.9 5.9 6.7 4.5 2.1
C2 length TA–TA Naris–Naris Naris–TA ST–TA Naris–ST CM–TA Naris–CM CM–NG1 Lip–TA Naris–Lip AM–ST Width at CMs	3.1 2.8 1.5 1.0 2.1 0.9 3.4 4.9 2.5 0.7 1.3 1.6 4.7	3.4 2.9 1.4 0.8 2.0 0.9 3.5 4.5 2.6 0.7 1.1 1.4 4.5	2.5 2.4 1.2 0.8 1.8 0.8 3.2 4.0 2.1 0.6 1.2 1.3 3.9	3.3 2.7 1.4 1.0 2.0 0.9 3.3 4.3 2.6 0.7 1.3 1.6 4.6	2.3 2.1 1.2 0.8 1.8 0.8 2.6 3.8 1.9 0.5 1.0 1.5 3.3	3.1 2.8 1.3 1.0 2.0 0.8 3.2 4.6 2.0 0.7 1.2 1.7 4.3	2.7 2.6 1.5 0.8 – – 3.8 5.0 2.2 0.5 1.1 – 4.4	2.3 2.1 1.3 0.7 1.7 0.9 2.4 3.4 1.8 0.6 1.1 1.3 3.3	2.8 2.7 1.2 0.9 2.0 0.9 3.5 4.7 2.0 0.5 1.1 1.5 4.3	3.2 2.7 1.4 0.9 2.0 0.8 3.5 4.7 2.2 0.8 1.3 1.6 4.5
WH Depth just behind CMs Width at midbody	5.5 – 6.9	5.5 3.9 7.0	4.6 – 5.7	5.9 4.1 8.4	4.0 3.3 4.8	5.2 3.9 7.6	5.2 – 7.9	3.9 2.7 4.2	5.0 4.2 6.5	5.9 4.1 6.7
Midbody circumference	25	24	20	27	19	22	25	18	21	25
Width at vent Distance behind vent Width of disc Denticles around vent Papillae on disc	5.1 3.0 1.8 11 no	4.8 3.1 2.2 12 no	3.6 2.5 1.8 13 no	5.8 3.4 2.2 14 no	4.8 2.1 1.6 – no	5.2 3.2 2.0 – no	5.6 3.2 1.6 13 no	3.7 2.6 1.3 11 no	4.9 2.8 2.4 10 no	5.6 3.0 – – –
L/W L/H	36.4 29.5	34.3 29.6	37.2 29.4	30.1 32.4	38.3 28.3	28.2 29.7	29.7 30.5	39.0 21.9	34.0 29.9	32.1 27.2