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Chilota purcelli subsp. montanus Michaelsen 1905

Description

Chilota purcelli montanus Michaelsen, 1905

Chilota montanus Michaelsen, 1905: 40.

Chilota montanus: Reynolds & Cook 1976: 140; Hartwich & Kilias 1989: 275 = ZMB Verm.; Blakemore 2008: 7; ZMH; BMNH.

Chilota montana: Blakemore 2008: 7.

Chilota purcelli (part.): Michaelsen 1913a: 521, 1913b: 56.

Chilota purcelli montanus: Pickford 1937: 500; BMNH.

Type locality. WC, Cape Peninsula, Rifle Range near Simonstown, under stones (waterfall).

Distribution. This subspecies occurs only in the south-eastern part of peninsula. Records: Simonstown, waterfall above little dam in Baviaan’s Kloof. Head of Baviaan’s Kloof. Near Rifle Range, Klaver Vallei, among roots of Osmitopsis and Juncus. Near the dam behind Molteno's House. Between Miller's Point and Simonstown.

Remarks. Syntypes ZMH V-6382, 6383; ZMB Verm. 4055. Other material BMNH 1938.7.1.2243–2259, recorded as Ch. montanus or Ch. purcelli montanus.

Notes

Published as part of Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2012, An annotated checklist of the South African Acanthodrilidae (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae: Acanthodrilinae, Benhamiinae), pp. 4-58 in Zootaxa 3458 on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282224

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Megascolecidae
Genus
Chilota
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Opisthopora
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Michaelsen
Species
montanus
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Chilota purcelli subsp. montanus Michaelsen, 1905 sec. Plisko, 2012

References

  • Michaelsen, W. (1905) Die Oligochaeten der deutschen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903. Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903, 9, Zoologie I, 1 - 58.
  • Reynolds J. W. & Cook, D. G. (1976) Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica. A catalogue of names, descriptions and type specimens of the Oligochaeta. Ottawa: Runge Press. 217 pp.
  • Hartwich, G. & Kilias, I. (1989) Die Oligochaeten-Typen des Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. The Types of Oligochaeta in the Zoological Museum, Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, 65 (2), 249 - 295.
  • Blakemore, R. J. (2008) Review of Southern Ocean, South Atlantic and Subantarctic Island earthworms updated from Lee (1994). Available from http: // www. annelida. net / earthworm / Subantarctic / Subantarctic % 20 Species. pdf (accessed 10 January 2012).
  • Michaelsen, W. (1913 a) Die Oligochaeten des Kaplandes. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, 34, 473 - 556.
  • Pickford, G. E. (1937) A monograph of the Acanthodriline earthworms of South Africa. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 612 pp.