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Polypheretima colonensis

Description

Polypheretima colonensis (Thai, 1996)

Pheretima colonensis Thai, 1996: 1, fig. 2 A; Thai 2000a: 310.

Polypheretima colonensis— Nakamura 1999: 7; Blakemore 2007a: 23; Blakemore 2008b; Nguyen et al. 2014: 112, Fig. 3.

Type locality. Vietnam (Con Lon Isl.).

Type material. SORC, Vietnam.

Examined material. 1 A (SORC-HV.222) Ba Ria-Vung Tau Prov., Conlon Island, Nha Bang slope, 300m asl, 25/06/989, coll. Thai Tran Bai

Records from Vietnam. Ba Ria-Vung Tau (Conlon Isl.) (Thai 1996).

Distribution. Only known from Vietnam.

Vietnamese name. Trùn côn đảo.

Notes

Published as part of Nguyen, Tung T., Nguyen, Anh D., Tran, Binh T. T. & Blakemore, Robert J., 2016, A comprehensive checklist of earthworm species and subspecies from Vietnam (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta: Almidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Moniligastridae, Ocnerodrilidae, Octochaetidae), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 4140 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/256507

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SORC
Family
Megascolecidae
Genus
Polypheretima
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Haplotaxida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Thai
Species
colonensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Polypheretima colonensis (Thai, 1996) sec. Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran & Blakemore, 2016

References

  • Thai, T. B. (1996) Description of five new species of the acaecate earthworms of the genus Pheretima Kinberg in Vietnam and key to the species of acaecate Pheretima recorded from Indochinese area. TAP CHI SINH HOC, 18 (1), 1 - 6.
  • Thai, T. B. (2000 a) Species diversity of earthworms in Vietnam. Proceedings of the national workshop on the basic issues in life science. Hanoi Science and Technics Publishing House, 307 - 311.
  • Nakamura, Y. (1999) Checklist of earthworms of Pheretima genus group (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) of the world. Edaphologia, 64, 1 - 78.
  • Blakemore, R. J. (2007 a) Updated checklist of Pheretimoids (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae: Pheretima auct.) taxa. www. annelida. net / earthworm / Pheretimoids. pdf (accessed 6 Jun 2016)
  • Blakemore, R. J. (2008 b) List of earthworms from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (Excel spreadsheet). In: A Series of Searchable Texts on Earthworm Biodiversity, Ecology and Systematics from Various Regions of the World - 2 nd Edition (2008). VermEcology, Yokohama. CD - ROM. Avaliable from: http: // www. annelida. net / earthworm / Vietnam % 20 + % 20 Lao s % 20 + % 20 Cambodia 1. xls (Accessed 21 Jul. 2016)
  • Nguyen, T. T., Tran, T. T. B. & Nguyen, D. A. (2014) Earthworms of the ' acaecate' Pheretima group in Vietnam (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae), with description of a new species from the Mekong delta. Zootaxa, 3866 (1), 105 - 121. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3866.1.5