Parachilota vanhoeffeni Michaelsen 1905
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Parachilota vanhoeffeni (Michaelsen, 1905)
Chilota vanhöffeni Michaelsen, 1905: 42.
Chilota vanhöffeni: Michaelsen 1913a: 503, 1913b; Reynolds & Cook 1976: 186; Hartwich & Kilias 1989: 290 = ZMB Verm.; Blakemore 2008: 7; ZMH.
Parachilota vanhoffeni: Pickford 1937: 198; Reynolds & Cook 1976: 186.
Parachilota vanhoffeni race vanhoffeni Pickford 1937: 199.
Parachilota vanhoffeni vanhoffeni: SAMC; BMNH.
Parachilota vanhoffeni race vadi Pickford 1937: 202; SAMC.
Type locality. WC, ‘Cape Peninsula, Road to Millers point, south of Simonstown’ (Michaelsen 1905).
Distribution. Known from number of sites, all from the large area of Cape Peninsula: Kirstenbosch and Skeleton Gorge, three samples. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, woods above Chestnut Avenue. Bank of Contour Path at Window Gorge, near Kirstenbosch. South of Hout Bay on Chapman's Peak Road about 1.5 km at waterfall. Kloof, about 1.5 km north of Millers Point on Simonstown road. Drift across the road between Brinksberg Farm and Diep Gat Gorge. Above Diep Gat Gorge, on Mountain side in the damp leaf mould. Simonstown near Waterfall.
Remarks. Pickford (1937: 199) redescribed this species on type material now in SAMC as sample ‘SAM 374’ marked as ‘ type of P. vanhoffeni vanhoffeni ’. Another sub-sample SAMC A20614 is marked as P. vanhoffeni race vadi. Syntypes: ZMB Verm. 4056; ZMH V-6385. Other material: BMNH 1938.7.1.825–842; 1938.7.1.843–856; SAMC A21613.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Acanthodrilidae
- Genus
- Parachilota
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Crassiclitellata
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Michaelsen
- Species
- vanhoeffeni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parachilota vanhoeffeni 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.
- Michaelsen, W. (1913 a) Die Oligochaeten des Kaplandes. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, 34, 473 - 556.
- 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).
- Pickford, G. E. (1937) A monograph of the Acanthodriline earthworms of South Africa. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 612 pp.