Metaphire dipapillata
Description
(Fig. 4, Table 3)
Pheretima multitheca dipapillata Thai et Tran, 1986: 9, fig. 3C.
Metaphire multitheca dipapillata – Blakemore, 2007: 68, “ species inquirenda ”.
Metaphire dipapillata – Nguyen & Nguyen, 2015: 132.
Type locality. Vietnam (Nghe An: Ky Son).
Examined material. 5C (SORC-PV.70.01) Muong Long, Ky Son, Nghe An, 1/1/1986, coll. Tran Ba Cu.
Diagnosis. First dorsal pore in 11/12. Four thecal segments, multiple spermathecal pores in intersegments 5/6/7/8/9. Male pores located inside highly elevated copulatory pouches in xviii. A pair of round genital markings in intersegment 17/18. Intestinal origin at xvi, caeca simple from xxvii. Septa 8/9/10 absent.
Remarks. The species was originally described as subspecies Pheretima multitheca dipapillata Thai et Tran, 1986. Blakemore (2007) allocated it to the genus Metaphire but listed it as “ species inquirenda ” without explanation. However, the species is clearly different from Metaphire multitheca (Chen, 1938) in having a pair of genital markings in 17/18, multiple spermathecal pores in 5/6/7/8/9 and first dorsal pore in 11/12. Metaphire multitheca (Chen, 1938) has two pairs of genital markings in front of and behind male porophores in xviii, multiple spermathecal pores on posterior border of segments vi, vii and viii, and first dorsal pore in 12/13 (Table 3). As a result, the species has been raised to full rank and assigned to the genus Metaphire (Nguyen & Nguyen, 2015).
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- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5385817 (DOI)
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5385803 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SORC-PV
- Event date
- 1986-01-01
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Metaphire
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Opisthopora
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Thai et Tran
- Species
- dipapillata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1986-01-01
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metaphire dipapillata (et, 1986) sec. Nguyen, Trinh, Le & Nguyen, 2015
References
- Thai TB & Tran BC (1986) The fauna of earthworms of mountain district Ki Son (Nghe Tinh province, Vietnam) and descriptions of new species of the genus Pheretima Kinberg. Tap Chi Sinh Hoc, 8 (4): 4 - 12.
- Blakemore RJ (2007) Updated checklist of Pheretimoids (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae: Pheretima auct.) taxa. www. annelida. net / earthworm / Pheretimoids. pdf (Accessed 26 August 2014)
- Nguyen AD & Nguyen TT (2015) Notes on Metaphire multitheca (Chen, 1938) (Oligochaeta, Megascolecidae) recorded from Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys, 506: 127 - 136.
- Chen Y (1938) Oligochaeta from Hainan, Kwangtung. Contributions from the Biological Laboratory of the Science Society of China. Zoological Series, 12 (10): 375 - 427.