Banna caecilian [SEP] parent taxon
Banna caecilian
The Banna caecilian, Ichthyophis bannanicus, is a species of amphibians in the family Ichthyophiidae found in southern China and northern Vietnam, presumably also in adjacent eastern Myanmar and northern Laos.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
suggests that matriphagy can exist under nutrient-limited conditions, but the costs generally outweigh the benefits when mothers have sufficient access to resources.
Forms of parental care similar to matriphagy Parental investment by skin-feeding in Caecilian amphibians.
Caecilian amphibians are worm-like in appearance, and mothers have thick epithelial skin layers. The skin on a caecilian mother is used for a form of parent-offspring nutrient transfer. 
The Taita African caecilian "Boulengerula taitana" is an oviparous (egg-laying) caecilian whose skin transforms