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Amynthas pomosus Chen 1946

Description

Amynthas pomosus (Chen, 1946)

Pheretima pomosa Chen, 1946: 139, Pl. IV, Fig. D.

Pheretima domosa Chen, 1946: 102; Do 1994: 71; Nakamura 1999: 46; Huynh & Nguyen 2004a: 115; Blakemore 2007a: 30, " nomen nudum ".

Amynthas domosus— Sims & Easton 1972: 234.

Amynthas pomosus— Blakemore 2007a: 82, "emend".

Type locality. China (Szechuan).

Type material. Unknown.

Records from Vietnam. Lao Cai (Sa Pa), Hanoi (Ba Vi NP) (Do 1994; Huynh & Nguyen 2004a).

Distribution. China (Chen 1946).

Remarks. Blakemore (2007a) restored name under ICZN (1999: Art. 32.5) from incorrect original spelling of the name as " domosa " by Chen (1946: 102) for " pomosa " as cited by Chen (1946: 139 and Plate IV D). Sims & Easton (1972: 234) and Reynolds & Cook (1976: 95) have erroneously retained the name " domosus ".

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Megascolecidae
Genus
Amynthas
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Opisthopora
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Chen
Species
pomosus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Amynthas pomosus Chen, 1946 sec. Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran & Blakemore, 2016

References

  • Chen, Y. (1946) On the terrestrial oligochaeta from Szechuan III. Contributions from the Biological Laboratory of the Science Society of China, Zoological Series, 16, 83 - 141.
  • Nakamura, Y. (1999) Checklist of earthworms of Pheretima genus group (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) of the world. Edaphologia, 64, 1 - 78.
  • Huynh, T. K. H. & Nguyen, D. A. (2004 a) Diversity of earthworms of Bavi National Park, Hatay province. The proceedings of the national workshop on the basic issues in life science, 114 - 117. [Science and Technics Publishing House, Hanoi]
  • Blakemore, R. J. (2007 a) Updated checklist of Pheretimoids (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae: Pheretima auct.) taxa. www. annelida. net / earthworm / Pheretimoids. pdf (accessed 6 Jun 2016)
  • 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
  • Reynolds, J. W. & Cook, D. G. (1976) Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica: a catalogue of names, descriptions and type specimens of the Oligochaeta. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton (or Ottawa, Runge Press), 217 pp.