Environment & Forests A new Caecilian (legless amphibian)
described from Keri village Sattari Goa Dr. G K Bhatt,
K.P.Dinesh, P. Prashant, Nirmal Kulkarni. The research team led
by Dr. Gopalakrishna Bhat, Professor of Zoology, M.G.M.College,
Udupi, Karnataka and consisting of Dinesh K.P. from the
Zoological Survey of India, Nirmal Kulkarni, Goan researcher
working in the Mahadayi region and Prashanth P. of the Agumbe
Rainforest Research Station. Dr. Bhat and his team encountered
two individuals of this animal in 2004 and the team was in
search for many more individuals to confirm that they are new to
science. Their continuous field visits and surveys to the sites
from 2004 to 2006 in the Monsoons and thereafter ultimately
enabled them to find and study few more individuals in this
year. Caecilians are the least known and studied of Amphibians
in the world and are presently known from some regions in the
wet tropics, some sub tropical regions except Madagascar, South
Esat Asia and Australia. In India, the Weste