Metaphire saigonensis

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 : 66

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5467352

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B5727931-FFF0-7946-FF3C-25D6604E8E37

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scientific name

Metaphire saigonensis
status

 

Metaphire saigonensis (Omodeo, 195 7)

Pheretima saigonensis Omodeo, 1957: 327 , Figs 2, 4; Thai 1983: 124, as a synonym of Metaphire bahli ; Nakamura 1999: 44. Metaphire saigonensis— Sims & Easton 1972: 239 ( peguana -group); Blakemore 2008b, as a synonym of Metaphire peguana ; Blakemore 2016: 17.

Type locality. Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh city = Sai Gon ).

Type material. Unknown.

Records from Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City (= Saigon) (Omodeo 195 7).

Distribution. Only known from Vietnam.

Vietnamese name. Giun sài gòn.

Remarks. The species was considered a synonym of Metaphire peguana , but was restored to full species rank by Blakemore (2016). M. peguana and M. saigonensis are clearly different in the distance between male pores and spermathecal pores ( Blakemore 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Oligochaeta

Order

Haplotaxida

Family

Megascolecidae

Genus

Metaphire

Loc

Metaphire saigonensis

Nguyen, Tung T., Nguyen, Anh D., Tran, Binh T. T. & Blakemore, Robert J. 2016
2016
Loc

Pheretima saigonensis

Blakemore 2016: 17
Nakamura 1999: 44
Thai 1983: 124
Sims 1972: 239
Omodeo 1957: 327
1957
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