Amynthas tokioensis
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA, USA 31061
- 2. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA 53706
- 3. Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, USA 30602
Description
Amynthas tokioensis (Beddard, 1892)
Murray Co.: (2) Chattahoochee NF, 34° 51’ 59” N, 84° 38’ 38” W, Rough Ridge fire, Burned Plot 1, litter, hand coll., 5 Oct 2017, Coll: BA Snyder, MA Callaham, et al.
Previously recorded: Harris, Henry. This Asian species is widely distributed in the eastern US (Chang et al. 2016).
Remarks. Because Amynthas agrestis is present at this site as well, this represents the first reported cooccurrence in Georgia of two of ‘the big three’ pheretimoid earthworms that often co-invade further north in North America (see Chang et al. 2018). Metaphire hilgendorfi is only reported once from Georgia (Clarke Co., see below), and Amynthas tokioensis has only been reported from Harris and Henry Counties (as junior synonym Metaphire levis, see Chang et al. 2021).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Beddard
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Crassiclitellata
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Amynthas
- Species
- tokioensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amynthas tokioensis (Beddard, 1892) sec. Mcgee, Carrera-Martínez, Jr & Snyder, 2024
References
- Beddard, F. E. (1892) On some Perichaetidae from Japan. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 6, 755 - 766. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 26457
- Chang, C. - H., Snyder, B. A. & Szlavecz, K. (2016) Asian pheretimoid earthworms in North America north of Mexico: An illustrated key to the genera Amynthas, Metaphire, Pithemera and Polypheretima (Clitellata: Megascolecidae). Zootaxa, 4179 (3), 495 - 529. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4179.3.7
- Chang, C. - H., Johnston, M. R., Gorres, J. H., Davalos, A., McHugh, D. & Szlavecz, K. (2018) Co-invasion of three Asian earthworms, Metaphire hilgendorfi, Amynthas agrestis and Amynthas tokioensis in the USA. Biological Invasions, 20, 843 - 848. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10530 - 017 - 1607 - x
- Chang, C. - H., Bartz, M. L. C., Brown, G., Callaham, Jr., M. A., Cameron, E. K., Davalos, A., Dobson, A., Gorres, J. H., Herrick, B. M., Ikeda, H., James, S. W., Johnston, M. R., McCay, T. S., McHugh, D., Minamiya, Y., Nouri-Aiin, M., Novo, M., Ortiz- Pachar, J., Pinder, R. A., Ransom, T., Richardson, J. B., Snyder, B. A. & Szlavecz, K. (2021) The second wave of earthworm invasions in North America: biology, environmental impacts, management and control of invasive jumping worms. Biological Invasions, 23, 3291 - 3322. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10530 - 021 - 02598 - 1