Amynthas
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Ordo: Opisthopora
Familia: Megascolecidae
Name
Amynthas Kinberg, 1867 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Amynthas Kinberg, 1867: 97 et Amyntas (laps. praeocc.) pg. 101.
- Amyntas (part) – Beddard 1900a[1]: 612.
- Nitocris Kinberg, 1867: 102 (praeocc.).
- Pheretima – Michaelsen 1900[2]: 234.
- Perichaeta (part praeocc.) – Beddard 1895[3]: 388.
- Promegascolex Cognetti, 1922 (part see Blakemore et al. 2007[4])
- Pheretima (Pheretima) (part) – Michaelsen 1928[5]: 8; Michaelsen 1934[6]: 15.
- Amynthas – Sims and Easton 1972[7]: 211; Blakemore 2002[8]: 149, 2007[9], 2008[10].
Type species
Amynthas aeruginosus Kinberg, 1867, by monotypy.
Distribution
Widely distributed in the Oriental region, and also found in Australasian and Oceanian regions (Sims and Easton 1972[7]) and distributed worldwide (Blakemore 2002[8], 2007[9]).
Remarks
Members of the genus can be easily recognized by the presence of intestinal caeca near xxvii, the absence of copulatory pouches, and often by absence of micronephridia on spermathecal ducts. It is noted that about 500+ nominal species have been recorded, but a considerable number are likely synonyms (Blakemore 2002[8], 2007[9]).
Taxon Treatment
- Nguyen, A; Nguyen, T; 2015: Notes on Metaphire multitheca (Chen, 1938) (Oligochaeta, Megascolecidae) recorded from Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species ZooKeys, (506): 127-136. doi
Other References
- ↑ Beddard F (1900a) A revision of the earthworms of the genus Amyntas (Perichaeta). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 609–652.
- ↑ Michaelsen W (1900) Oligochaeta. Das Tierreich 10: 1–575.
- ↑ Beddard F (1895) A monograph of the order Oligochaeta. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 769 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.28557
- ↑ Blakemore R, Csuzdi C, Ito M, Kaneko N, Paoletti M, Spiridonov S, Uchida T, Van Praagh B (2007) Megascolex (Promegascolex) mekongianus Cognetti, 1922: its extent, ecology and allocation to Amynthas (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). Opuscula Zoologica 36: 19–30. http://opuscula.elte.hu/PDF/Tomus36/3_Blakemore.pdf
- ↑ Michaelsen W (1928) Die Oligochäten Borneos. Arkiv för Zoologi 20(A3): 1–60.
- ↑ Michaelsen W (1934) Oligochaeta from Sarawak. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 77: 1–47.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sims R, Easton E (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. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1972.tb00694.x
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Blakemore R (2002) Cosmopolitan Earthworms – an Eco-Taxonomic Guide to the Peregrine Species of the World. 2nd Ed. VermEcology, PO BOX 414 Kippax, ACT 2615, Australia.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Blakemore R (2007) Updated checklist of Pheretimoids (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae: Pheretima auct.) taxa. http://www.annelida.net/earthworm/Pheretimoids.pdf [accessed 26 August 2014]
- ↑ Blakemore R (2008) List of earthworms from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. http://www.annelida.net/earthworm/Vietnam%20+%20Laos%20+%20Cambodia1.xls [accessed 26 August 2014]
