Polypheretima

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 : 76

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" Polypheretima " touranensis (Michaelsen, 1934)

Pheretima touranensis Michaelsen, 1934b: 499 ; Sims & Easton 1972: 225, " incertae sedis "; Pham 1995c: 102; Thai 2000a: 310.

‘ Pheretima' touranensis— Easton 1979: 118.

Pheretima (Amynthas) touranensis— Thai 1983: 124; Nakamura 1999: 34.

Amynthas ? touranensis— Blakemore 2007a: 100;

Polypheretima touranensis— Nguyen et al. 2014: 118 View Cited Treatment , Fig. 3.

Type locality. Vietnam ( Tourane = Da Nang).

Type material. MNHN (AE688 (A 730)), France.

Records from Vietnam. Da Nang (Vu Gia pass) ( Michaelsen 1934b).

Distribution. Only known from Vietnam.

Remarks. Intestine of type material was so damaged that presence or absence of caeca could not be identified ( Sims & Easton 1972). Easton (1979) considered this species a candidate for inclusion in three genera, Amynthas , Pithemera and Polypheretima , but he further suggested that if this species should prove to belong to Polypheretima then it would be included within the bifaria species-group. Since it is impossible to determine the presence or absence of the intestinal caeca, it is impossible to decide exactly which genus this species should belong to. Thus, the species is treated as species incertae sedis. Apart from the original description, there are no other records from Vietnam.

References

Blakemore, R. J. (2007 a) Updated checklist of Pheretimoids (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae: Pheretima auct.) taxa. www. annelida. net / earthworm / Pheretimoids. pdf (accessed 6 Jun 2016)

Easton, E. G. (1979) A revision of the ' acaecate' earthworms of the Pheretima group (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta): Archipheretima, Metapheretima, Planapheretima, Pleionogaster and Polypheretima. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 35, 1 - 126. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 20451

Michaelsen, W. (1934 b) Oligochaten von Franzosisch-Indochina. Archive de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale, 76, 493 - 546.

Nakamura, Y. (1999) Checklist of earthworms of Pheretima genus group (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) of the world. Edaphologia, 64, 1 - 78.

Nguyen, T. T., Tran, T. T. B. & Nguyen, D. A. (2014) Earthworms of the ' acaecate' Pheretima group in Vietnam (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae), with description of a new species from the Mekong delta. Zootaxa, 3866 (1), 105 - 121. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3866.1.5

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.

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

Thai, T. B. (1983) Earthworms of Vietnam (Systematic, fauna, distribution and zoogeographic). PhD dissertation in Zooglogy. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia [in Russian]

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.