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Perionyx foveatus Stephenson 1914
Authors/Creators
- 1. Central Department of Zoology, Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 44618, Nepal
Description
Perionyx foveatus Stephenson, 1914
Perionyx foveatus Stephenson, 1914 b: 396.
Type Locality: Arunachal Pradesh, India
Distribution in Nepal: Koshi Province, Taplejung District, Mewa Khola, Sanghu at 1600–2000m asl (Sims 1963).
Distribution elsewhere: India (Kharkongo 2018).
Habitat: Household, animal waste material (Mubeen & Hatti 2022).
Ecology: Epigeic or epi-anecic (Kharkongo 2018).
Remarks: This species is endemic to northeast India. The specimen was collected by K.H. Hyatt and W.G. Inglis from Nepal in1961 (Sims 1963).
Notes
Published as part of Singh, Ankit Kumar & Khanal, Laxman, 2025, Annotated Checklist of the Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Megadrili) of Nepal, pp. 91-111 in Zootaxa 5589 (1) on page 101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/14897397
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Stephenson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Crassiclitellata
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Perionyx
- Species
- foveatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Perionyx foveatus Stephenson, 1914 sec. Singh & Khanal, 2025
References
- Stephenson, J. (1914) On a collection of Oligochaeta, mainly from Northern India. Records of the Indian Museum, 10, 321-365. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.5632
- Sims, R. W. (1963) A small collection of earthworms from Nepal (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 60, 84-91.
- Mubeen, H. & Hatti, S. S. (2022) Earthworms of Hyderabad-Karnataka Province, Karnataka, India, with Two New Records. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B, 92, 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40011-021-01301-7