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Pithemera Sims & Easton 1972
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Genus Pithemera Sims & Easton, 1972
Pithemera Sim & Easton, 1972: 202.
Type species. Perichaeta bicincta Perrier, 1875, by original designation.
Distribution. Mainly in Pacific Isls, e.g. Solomon Isl., New Britain, Fiji, Samoa, Philippines (Sims & Easton 1972: 202; Blakemore 2002: 223, 2012a).
Remarks. Members of the genus are easily recognized by the presence of intestinal caeca at xxi–xxiv, absence of copulatory pouches, and single or paired female pores on xiv. Currently, twelve species have been described (Csuzdi 2012), but only one has been found in Vietnam.
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 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/256507
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Sims & Easton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Haplotaxida
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Pithemera
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pithemera Sims, 1972 sec. Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran & Blakemore, 2016
References
- Sims, R. W. & Easton, E. G. (1972) A numerical revision of the earthworm genus Pheretima auct. (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) with the recognition of new genera and an appendix on the earthworms collected by the Royal Society North Borneo Expedition. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 4, 169 - 268. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1095 - 8312.1972. tb 00694. x
- Perrier, E. (1875) Sur les vers de terre desiles de Philippines et de la Cochinchine. Les Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 81, 1043 - 1046.
- Blakemore, R. J. (2002) Cosmopolitan Earthworms - an Eco - Taxonomic Guide to the Peregrine Species of the World. 2 nd Ed. VermEcology, PO BOX 414 Kippax, ACT 2615, Australia. August, 2002.
- Csuzdi, Cs. (2012) Earthworm species, a searchable database. Opuscula Zoologica, 43 (1), 97 - 99. Avaliable from: http: // earthworm. uw. hu / (Accessed 21 Jul. 2016)