Amynthas angusticaudus
Description
Amynthas angusticaudus (Thai, 1982)
Pheretima angusticauda Thai, 1982: 821, fig. 1B; Do 1994: 55; Nakamura 1999: 20; Thai 2000a: 307. Pheretima (Amynthas) angusticauda— Thai 1983: 125.
Amynthas angusticaudus— Blakemore 2007a: 7; Blakemore 2008b.
Type locality. Vietnam (Ninh Binh: Cuc Phuong).
Type material. ZMUM (W.249), Russia.
Examined material. 10 C (SORC-V.009.01) limestone forests, Moc Chau, Son La, 12/04/1990; 12 C, 3 A (SORC-V.009.02) Thuy Phuoc, Hue, 07/01/1980.
Records from Vietnam. Son La (Moc Chau); Lao Cai (Sa Pa); Ninh Binh (Cuc Phuong); Thua Thien Hue (Hue city) (Thai 1982; Do 1994).
Distribution. Only known from Vietnam.
Vietnamese name. Giun đuôi nhọn.
Remarks. The species is variable in the number of spermathecae. It has been found in decaying woods (Do 1994). Material was re-examined and absence of male copulatory pouches and hence placement of the species in Amynthas is confirmed here.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZMUM
- Event date
- 1980-01-07 , 1990-04-12
- Verbatim event date
- 1980-01-07 , 1990-04-12
- Scientific name authorship
- Thai
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Opisthopora
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Amynthas
- Species
- angusticaudus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amynthas angusticaudus (Thai, 1982) sec. Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran & Blakemore, 2016
References
- Thai, T. B. (1982) The fauna of earthworms f the Cucfuong forest reserve (Vietnam) and descriptions of new species of the genus Pheretima. Zoologicheskii Jurnal, 61 (6), 817 - 830.
- Nakamura, Y. (1999) Checklist of earthworms of Pheretima genus group (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) of the world. Edaphologia, 64, 1 - 78.
- 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.
- Thai, T. B. (1983) Earthworms of Vietnam (Systematic, fauna, distribution and zoogeographic). PhD dissertation in Zooglogy. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia [in Russian]
- 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)