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Parachilota editha Pickford 1927

Description

Parachilota editha (Pickford, 1927)

Chilota editha Pickford, 1927: 452.

Chilota editha: Reynolds & Cook 1976: 97; BMNH; NMSAD. Parachilota editha: Pickford 1937: 330; Zicsi 1998: 66.

Type locality. EC, Cumakala river below the graveyard at Stutterheim.

Distribution. Known from two distant sites. Described from EC coastal mountain range at Amatola foothills. Recorded from KZN midlands Podocarpus mist forest, in Karkloof Nature Reserve. Remarks. Type BMNH 1938.7.1.1293. Other material: HNHM AF/2511, AF/2512; NMSA/Olig.02710, NMSA/Olig.00248.

Notes

Published as part of Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2012, An annotated checklist of the South African Acanthodrilidae (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae: Acanthodrilinae, Benhamiinae), pp. 4-58 in Zootaxa 3458 on page 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282224

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Acanthodrilidae
Genus
Parachilota
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Crassiclitellata
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Pickford
Species
editha
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Parachilota editha Pickford, 1927 sec. Plisko, 2012

References

  • Pickford, G. E. (1927) The Acanthodriline earthworms of South Africa east of the 25 ° meridian. Albany Museum, 3, 441 - 465.
  • Reynolds J. W. & Cook, D. G. (1976) Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica. A catalogue of names, descriptions and type specimens of the Oligochaeta. Ottawa: Runge Press. 217 pp.
  • Pickford, G. E. (1937) A monograph of the Acanthodriline earthworms of South Africa. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 612 pp.
  • Zicsi, A. (1998) Neue und seltene terrestrische Oligochaeten aus Sudafrika. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, 95, 59 - 77.