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Metaphire soulensis

Description

Metaphire soulensis (Kobayashi, 1938)

Remarks. Song & Paik (1970: 11) also located Metaphire soulensis (Kobayashi, 1938) on “Chejoo-do”. Its synonyms are Pheretima shinkeiensis Kobayashi, 1938; Ph. aokii Ishizuka, 1999 - synonymy as per Blakemore (2003: 43) plus A. dageletensis Hong & Kim, 2005 from Ullungdo. Revision is currently in progress based on Seoul and Ulleungdo specimens (Blakemore, in prep.).

Notes

Published as part of Blakemore, Robert J., 2013, Jeju-do earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megadrilacea) - Quelpart Island revisited, pp. 15-54 in Journal of Species Research 2 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2013.2.1.015, http://zenodo.org/record/13136911

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Megascolecidae
Genus
Metaphire
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Crassiclitellata
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Kobayashi
Species
soulensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Metaphire soulensis (Kobayashi, 1938) sec. Blakemore, 2013

References

  • Kobayashi, S. 1938. Earthworms of Korea I. Science Report of the Tohoku Imperial University 13 (2): 89 - 170.
  • Song, M. - J. and K. - Y. Paik. 1970. Earthworms from Chejoo-do Island, Korea. Korean Journal of Zoology 13 (1): 9 - 14.
  • Hong, Y. and T. - H. Kim. 2005. The earthworm fauna from Ulleungdo Island, Korea with one new specis of the genus Amynthas (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). The Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology 21 (2): 129 - 136.