Metapheretima vietnamensis Thai , 1984

Nguyen, Tung T., Tran, Binh T. T. & Nguyen, Anh D., 2014, Earthworms of the ' acaecate' Pheretima group in Vietnam (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae), with description of a new species from the Mekong delta, Zootaxa 3866 (1), pp. 105-121 : 108

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Metapheretima vietnamensis Thai, 1984

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Metapheretima vietnamensis Thai, 1984: 614 , Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 B; Blakemore 2007: 104.

Type material. 1C (W.270, Zoological Museum of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) ( Thai, 1984)

Records from Vietnam. Gia Lai Province (An Khe town); Da Nang City (Hoa Vang); Quang Nam Province (Hiep Duc; Tra My) ( Thai 1984; Pham 1995a).

Distribution. Only known from Vietnam.

Remarks. The species is relatively 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 1984).

References

Blakemore, R. J. (2007) Updated checklist of Pheretimoids (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae: Pheretima auct.) taxa. Available from: www. annelida. net / earthworm / Pheretimoids. pdf (accessed 26 August 2014)

Pham, T. H. H. (1995 a) The earthworm fauna of Quang Nam - Da Nang. PhD dissertation in Zoology. Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, 180 pp. [in Vietnamese with English summary]

Thai, T. B. (1984) New species and subspecies of the genus Pheretima (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Vietnam. Zoologicheski Jurnal, 63 (4), 613 - 617. [in Russian, with English summary]