Metapheretima vietnamensis Thai, 1984

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), Zootaxa 4140 (1), pp. 1-92 : 70

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scientific name	Metapheretima vietnamensis Thai, 1984
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Metapheretima vietnamensis Thai, 1984b: 614 , fig. 1B; Blakemore 2007a: 104; Blakemore 2008b; Nguyen et al. 2014: 108 View Cited Treatment , fig. 1.

Pheretima vietnamensis— Pham 1995c: 100; Thai 2000a: 310; Huynh 2005a: 130; Pham 2010: 64.

Type locality. Vietnam (Gia Lai: An Khe ).

Type material. ZMUM (W.270), Russia.

Records from Vietnam. Gia Lai ( An Khe town ) ; Da Nang (Hoa Vang; Son Tra; Hai Van) ; Quang Nam (Hiep Duc; Tra My) ( Thai 1984b; Pham 1995c; Pham 2010).

Distribution. Only known from Vietnam.

Vietnamese name. Trùn việt nam.

Remarks. The species is similar to Metapheretima speiseri (Michaelsen, 1913) and Metapheretima apunae Lee, 1981 , but differs from both in having two pairs of spermathecal pores in 5/6 and the spermathecal diverticulum originating from the spermathecal duct ( Thai 1984b).