Pithemera bicincta Perrier 1875
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Pithemera bicincta (Perrier, 1875)
Pheretima bicincta— Ohfuchi 1956: 243, fig. 24; Gates 1959: 4; 1972: 170.
Pithemera bicincta— Sims & Easton 1972: 202; Easton 1981: 80; 1982: 725, fig. 4g; Shen & Tsai 2002a: 17, fig. 1A, 2002b: 1; Chen et al. 2003: 58; Blakemore 2003: 7; Blakemore et al. 2006: 230; Tsai et al. 2009: 38.
Material examined. 4 adults, NCHUZOOL 13522, Nanliao Mt., Lyudao, Taitung Co., Taiwan, coll. H.-T. Shih, 18 Feb. 1998; 4 adults, NCHUZOOL 13529; 22°04’43.2”N, 121°30’24.9”E, Lanyu Lighthouse, Lanyu, Taitung Co., Taiwan, coll. Y.-H. Wang, 2 Apr. 2008; 2 adults, NCHUZOOL 13530, 22°04’37.6”N, 121°31’50.6”E, Langdao, Lanyu, Taitung Co., Taiwan, coll. Y.-H. Wang et al., 2 Apr. 2008.
Diagnosis. Dimensions 62–90 mm, 2.2–3.3 mm in clitellum. Prostomium, epilobic; first dorsal pore at 12/ 13. Clitellum annular, xiv–xvi 1/2. Spermathecal pores at 4/5–8/9; male pores on xviii; female pores, paired on xiv; 5–8 setae between male pores. Septa, 5/6–7/8 thick; 8/9–9/10 absent; 10/11–12/13 thick. Gizzard in viii–x; intestinal origin from xv; intestinal caeca very small and short, originating in xxii; typhlosole simple 1/ 3 lumen diameter from xxiii, extending forward as small ridge to xxi. Holandric; spermathecae paired in v–ix; prostates in xviii extending to xvi–xix, with 3 lobes.
Remarks. Pithemera bicincta is not common in Taiwan and only found on Yangmingshan (= Green Mt.), Taipei City (Gates 1959), Ilan Co. (Chen et al. 2003), and Lanyu, Taitung Co (Shen & Tsai 2002a, b). Our study added a new locality, Lyudao, Taitung Co.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.193306 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Perrier
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Opisthopora
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Pithemera
- Species
- bicincta
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pithemera bicincta Perrier, 1875 sec. Wang & Shih, 2010
References
- Ohfuchi, S. (1956) On a collection of the terrestrial Oligochaeta obtained from the various localities in Riu-kiu Islands, together with the consideration of their geographical distribution (part II). Journal of Agricultural Science Tokyo Nogyo Daigaku, 3, 243 - 261.
- Gates, G. E. (1959) On some earthworms from Taiwan. American Museum Novitates, 1941, 1 - 19.
- 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.
- Easton, E. G. (1981) Japanese earthworms: a synopsis of the megadrile species (Oligochaeta). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology), 40, 33 - 65.
- Shen, H. - P. & Tsai, C. - F. (2002 a) A new earthworm of the genus Pithemera (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from the Lanyu Island (Botel Tobago). Journal of the National Taiwan Museum, 55, 17 - 24.
- Chen, I. - H., Chang, C. - H. & Chen, J. - H. (2003) The species composition and distribution of earthworms in Ilan. Chinese Bioscience, 46, 56 - 65. (in Chinese).
- Blakemore, R. J. (2003) Japanese earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta): a review and checklist of species. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution, 11, 1 - 43.
- Blakemore, R. J., Chang, C. - H., Chuang, S. - C., Ito, M. T., James, S. W. & Chen, J. - H. (2006) Biodiversity of earthworms in Taiwan: a species checklist with the confirmation and new records of the exotic lumbricids Eisenia fetida and Eiseniella tetraedra. Taiwania, 51, 226 - 236.
- Tsai, C. - F., Shen, H. - P., Tsai, S. - C., Lin, K. - J., Hsieh, H. - L. & Yo, S. - P. (2009) A checklist of oligochaetes (Annelida) from Taiwan and its adjacent islands. Zootaxa, 2133, 33 - 48.
- Shen, H. - P. & Tsai, C. - F. (2002 b) Earthworm fauna of the Lanyu Island (Botel Tobago). Endemic Species Research, 4, 1 - 8.