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Amynthas swanus Tsai 1964
Description
Amynthas swanus (Tsai, 1964)
Pheretima swanus Tsai, 1964: 13; Pham 1995c: 96; Nakamura 1999: 25; Thai 2000a: 310; Pham 2010: 64. Amynthas swanus— Sims & Easton 1972: 236, 237, 246; Blakemore 2007a: 95; Blakemore 2008b.
Type locality. Taiwan.
Type material. Missing.
Records from Vietnam. Da Nang (Hoa Vang; Son Tra); Quang Nam (Que Son; Hiep Duc; Tam Ky; Tien Phuoc; Phuoc Son) (Pham 1995c, 2010).
Distribution. Taiwan (Tsai 1964).
Remarks. Pham (1995c) noted that the species seems to be commonly found in hill soils. Further examination was not possible because all previously collected material has been lost.
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 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/256507
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Amynthas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Opisthopora
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Tsai
- Species
- swanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amynthas swanus Tsai, 1964 sec. Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran & Blakemore, 2016
References
- Tsai, C. - F. (1964) On some earthworms belonging to the genus Pheretima Kinberg collected from Taipei area in North Taiwan. Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum, 17, 1 - 35.
- Pham, T. H. H. (1995 c) The earthworm fauna of Quang Nam-Da Nang. PhD dissertation in Zoology. Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, 180 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.
- Pham, T. H. H. (2010) The diversity of earthworms in Danang city. Journal of Science and Technology, Danang University, 5 (40), 60 - 69.
- 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
- 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)