Amynthas carnosus (Goto & Hatai, 1899)

Blakemore, Robert J., 2013, Ulleung-do earthworms - Dagelet Island revisited, Journal of Species Research 2 (1), pp. 55-68 : 58

Amynthas carnosus (Goto & Hatai, 1899)

Material examined. INV0000261260, ten specimens combined in one sample: two matures from Tongumi, 24 th Sept., 2012; two from Naribunji, 25 th Sept., 2012; six from Arae-tongumi, 27 th Sept, 2012. [INV000261262, an anomalous specimen providing DNA sample w54 removed (see A. pingi below)].

Description. Specimens comply with A. carnosus diagnosis having variable GMs near spermathecal pores in 5/6/7/8/9 and median to male pores that are superficial on 18 in round porophores. [Anomalous specimen INV0 00261262 is provisionally listed under A. pingi ].

Remarks. Chinese/Japanese/Korean Amynthas carnosus (Goto & Hatai, 1899) recently redescribed on the Tokyo museum neotype (Tokyo NSMT An435) by Blakemore (2012a). Synonymy includes: kyamikia Kobayashi, 1934, monstrifera Kobayashi, 1936 , sangyeoli, youngtai (with segments miscounted), kimhaeiensis , sinsiensis and baemsagolensis - all Korean names by Hong & James, 2001, Chinese monsoonus James et al., 2005, fuscus Qiu & Sun, 2012 plus Amynthas taiwumontis Shen et al., 2013 that was compared to Amynthas fornicatus (Gates, 1935) which, after Chen (1936: 298), is held in synonymy of Chinese A. pingi (Stephenson, 1925) itself usually in synonymy of A. carnosus but provisionally retained pending its review based on the types, as per Blakemore (2012a; 2013) and as noted below. A. taiwumontis was also strangely compared to A. marenzelleri (Cognetti, 1906) that is a long established synonyn of A. corticis (Kinberg) despite its recent redescription by Blakemore (2012c: 114).

Note. Song & Paik (1969: 17, figs. 29-32) described “ Pheretima sp. 1 ” from “ 5 clitellate specimens V 11, 1966, Y.K. Kim ” that Hong & James (2001: 274) named as A. baemsagolensis after its type locality at Mt Jiri on the mainland, including Song & Paik’s material as “ 8 clitellate specimens ” from “ Dagelet I., 5 Aug 1966 (YK Kim)” (sic lapsus?). Hong & James (2001) only compared A. baemsagolensis to their own A. sinsiensis Hong & James, 2011: 272 - inexplicably overlooking their earlier A. kimhaeiensis Hong & James, 2001: 270 synonym of A. carnosus - and to A. monstrifera ( Kobayashi, 1936) - as inde- ed had Song & Paik (1969: 17) - that is itself a synonym of A. carnosus . Hong & Kim (2005: 130, 132) misspell- ed the name as “ bamsagolensis ” (sic lapsus) three times, amongst many other errors (see below) in a paper acknowledging review of all their taxonomic descriptions by S. James.