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Amynthas glabrus Gates 1932

Description

Amynthas glabrus (Gates, 1932)

Pheretima glabra Gates, 1932: 395; Gates 1972: 187; Zhong & Qiu 1987: 24, fig. 2; Do 1994: 78; Le 1995a: 37; Nakamura 1999: 24; Thai 2000a: 309; Huynh et al. 2005: 180.

Pheretima (Terrata) glabra— Thai 1983: 123.

Amynthas glabrus— Sims & Easton 1972: 237; Easton 1981: 50; Blakemore 2007a: 42; Blakemore 2008b.

See Blakemore (2007a) for more synonyms.

Type locality. China (Nam Hpen Noi, Yunnan).

Type material. Unknown.

Examined material. 1 C (SORC-V.138.01), cabbage field, Son La, 31/12/1984.

Records from Vietnam. Lang Son (Binh Gia); Yen B a i (Yen Binh); Vinh Phuc (Tam Dao NP); Phu Tho (Xuan Son NP); Ninh Binh (Cuc Phuong NP) (Do 1994; Le 1995a; Huynh et al. 2005).

Distribution. Originally described from China (Yunnan) and Myanmar, and known from Japan; recently reported from China (Sichuan; Guizhou) and Vietnam (Easton 1981; Zhong & Qiu 1987; Blakemore 2007a).

Vietnamese name. Giun nhẵn.

Remarks. Thai (1983) proposed a new subgenus Terrata of the genus Pheretima, and placed the species under the new subgenus.

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 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/256507

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1984-12-31
Verbatim event date
1984-12-31
Scientific name authorship
Gates
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Order
Opisthopora
Family
Megascolecidae
Genus
Amynthas
Species
glabrus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Amynthas glabrus Gates, 1932 sec. Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran & Blakemore, 2016

References

  • Gates, G. E. (1932) The earthworms of Burma. III. Records of Indian Museum, 34, 357 - 549.
  • Gates, G. E. (1972) Burmese Earthworms: An Introduction to the Systematics and Biology of Megadrile Oligochaetes with Special Reference to Southeast Asia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N. S. 62 (7), 1 - 326. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1006214
  • Zhong, Y. - h. & Qui, J. - p. (1987) A new record of a Pheretima in China and Pheretima glabra discovered in Sichuan and Guizhou. Sichuan Journal of Zoology, 6 (2), 24 - 25.
  • Le, V. T. (1995 a) The earthworm fauna of Northeastern Vietnam. PhD dissertation in Zoology. Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, 148 pp.
  • 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.
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  • 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
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