Amynthas rodericensis (Grube, 1879)

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

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.27

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14897146

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scientific name

Amynthas rodericensis (Grube, 1879)
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11. Amynthas rodericensis (Grube, 1879) View in CoL

Amynthas rodericensis (Grube, 1879) View in CoL — Reynolds & Reynolds 2007: 20.

See Borges & Moreno (1990) and Chang et al. (2016) for a full synonym list.

Distribution. DO, Espaillat Province, Gaspar Hernández Municipality, Bahia Principe Grand San Juan (Site 14, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ) ( Reynolds & Reynolds 2007).

Remarks. This species is only known from one locality from Hispaniola.

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

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.

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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

Amynthas