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Octochaetona Gates 1962

Description

Genus Octochaetona Gates, 1962

Octochaetona Gates, 1962c: 211; Gates 1972: 307.

Type species. Octochaetus surensis Michaelsen, 1910. Distribution. Mainly in India.

Remarks. Only one species has been reported from 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 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/256507

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gates
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Order
Haplotaxida
Family
Octochaetidae
Genus
Octochaetona
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Octochaetona Gates, 1962 sec. Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran & Blakemore, 2016

References

  • 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
  • Michaelsen, W. (1910) Oligochaten von verschiedenen Gebieten. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, 27, 47 - 169.