Polypheretima elongata (Perrier, 1872)

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12. Polypheretima elongata (Perrier, 1872)

Metapheretima elongata (Perrier, 1872) — Righi 1980: 5–6.

Pheretima biserialis Perrier 1875 View in CoL — Michaelsen 1908: 14. Michaelsen 1909: 6. Pheretima elongata (Perrier, 1872) View in CoL — Gates 1937: 352–354. Reynolds & Reynolds 2001: 17. Polypheretima elongata (Perrier, 1872) — Borges 1988: 220–234. Reynolds & Reynolds 2001: 18, 19. Reynolds & Reynolds

2004a: 15, 16. Reynolds & Reynolds 2006: 89. Fragoso & Brown 2007: 72 (table). Rodríguez et al. 2007: 98 (table).

Reynolds & Reynolds 2007: 19, 20. See Borges & Moreno (1990) and Chang et al. (2016) for a full synonym list.

Distribution. Haiti ( Michaelsen 1909; Righi 1980; Reynolds & Reynolds 2001; Reynolds & Reynolds 2006, misspelled as “Hatai”; Fragoso & Brown 2007; Rodríguez et al. 2007); HT, Nord Department, Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement, Cap-Haïtien (Site 2, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ) ( Michaelsen 1908); HT, Grand'Anse Department ( Gates 1937). Dominican Republic ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2004a; Fragoso & Brown 2007; Rodríguez et al. 2007); DO, Puerto Plata Province, Sosúa Municipality, 1 km east of Hotel Casa Marina Beach and Reef (Site 15, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ) ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2001); DO, Puerto Plata Province, Montellano Municipality, 8 km west of Sosúa (Site 16, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ) ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2001); DO, Puerto Plata Province, Montellano Municipality, 10 km west of Sosúa (Site 17, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ) ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2001); DO, Puerto Plata Province, Luperón Municipality, Luperón Beach Resort (Site 13, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ) ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2004a); DO, Espaillat Province, Gaspar Hernández Municipality, Bahia Principe Grand San Juan (Site 14, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ) ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2007).

References

Borges, S. (1988) Los Oligoquetos terrestres de Puerto Rico. Thesis. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 376 pp.

Borges, S. & Moreno, A. G. (1990) Contribucion al conocimiento de los oligoquetos terrestres de Puerto Rico: las pheretimas. Caribbean Journal of Science, 26, 141-151.

Chang, C. H., Snyder, B. A. & Szlavecz, K. (2016) Asian pheretimoid earthworms in North America north of Mexico: An illustrated key to the genera Amynthas, Metaphire, Pithemera, and Polypheretima (Clitellata: Megascolecidae). Zootaxa, 4179 (3), 495-529. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.7

Fragoso, C. & Brown, G. G. (2007) Ecologia y Taxonomia de las lombrices de tierra en Latinoamerica: El primer Encuentro Latino-Americano de Ecologia y Taxonomia de Oligoquetos (ELAETAO 1). In: Brown, G. G. & Fragoso, C. (Eds.), Minhocas na America Latina: Biodiversidade e Ecologia. Embrapa Soja, Londrina, pp. 33-75.

Gates, G. E. (1937) The genus Pheretima in North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 80, 339-373.

Michaelsen, W. (1908) Die Oligochaten Westindiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher, 11, 13-32.

Michaelsen, W. (1909) Oligochaeta fur 1908. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 75 (2), 1-10.

Reynolds, J. W. & Reynolds, D. W. (2001) Nuevos datos de lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta) de la Republica Dominicana. Megadrilogica, 8 (5), 17-19.

Reynolds, J. W. & Reynolds, D. W. (2004 a) Nuevos registros de lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta: Glossoscolecidae) de la Republica Dominicana. Megadrilogica, 10 (3), 14-16.

Reynolds, J. W. & Reynolds, D. W. (2006) Sobre algunas lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta) de Honduras, C. A. Megadrilogica, 10 (11), 87-91.

Reynolds, J. W. & Reynolds, D. W. (2007) Primeros registros de lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta) para la provincia de Espaillat, Republica Dominicana. Megadrilogica, 11 (2), 19-20.

Righi, G. (1980) Alguns Megadrile (Oligochaeta, Annelida) brasileiros. Boletim de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 5, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2526-3358.bolzoo.1980.121900

Rodriguez, C., Borges, S., de los Angeles Martinez, M., Fragoso, C., James, S. W. & Gonzalez, G. (2007) Biodiversidad y ecologia de las lombrices de tierra en las islas caribenas. In: Brown, G. G. & Fragoso, C. (Eds.), Minhocas na America Latina: Biodiversidade e Ecologia. Embrapa Soja, Londrina, pp. 79-98.