Ichthyophis bannanicus Yang, 1984[2] The Koh Tao Island caecilian (Ichthyophis kohtaoensis) is a species of amphibian in the family Ichthyophiidae found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Also known as the Ichthyophis bannanicus, the Banna caecilian, it is also found in southern China.

[3] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.

The scientific name refers to Ko Tao Island in the Gulf of Siam, where the type specimen was collected.

[5] The conclusion that Ichthyophis genus is a karyologically conserved taxa when it comes to looking at the chromosome numbers.