Polypheretima elongata (Perrier, 1872)

Álvarez-Abreu, Oniel & Carrera-Martínez, Roberto, 2025, Annotated checklist of the earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) from Hispaniola: a brief review and remarks, Zootaxa 5589 (1), pp. 346-362 : 353-354

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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).

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.

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FIGURE 1. Approximate locations of known earthworm records from Hispaniola. The yellow spots and numbers (see the checklist) correspond to the specific localities where earthworms have been collected.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Clitellata

SubClass

Oligochaeta

Order

Crassiclitellata

Family

Megascolecidae

Genus

Polypheretima