Dichogaster Beddard, 1888

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 : 82

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scientific name

Dichogaster Beddard, 1888
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Genus Dichogaster Beddard, 1888

Dichogaster Beddard, 1888: 251 ; Michaelsen 1900: 334. Microdrilus Beddard, 1892d: 683.

Eutrigaster Cognetti, 1904: 2.

Type species. Dichogaster damonis Beddard, 1888 .

Distribution. Widely distributed in various parts of the world.

Remarks. More than 200 species have been described, several with circumtropical distributions ( Blakemore 2002). Only four species have been recorded in Vietnam, and all are cosmopolitan species.

Beddard, F. E. (1888) On certain points in the structure of Urochaeta, E. P., and Dichogaster, nov. gen., with further remarks on the nephrida of earthworms. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, n. s. 29, 235 - 282.

Beddard, F. E. (1892 d) On some new species of earthworms from various parts of the world. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1892, 666 - 706.

Blakemore, R. J. (2002) Cosmopolitan Earthworms - an Eco - Taxonomic Guide to the Peregrine Species of the World. 2 nd Ed. VermEcology, PO BOX 414 Kippax, ACT 2615, Australia. August, 2002.

Cognetti, L. (1904) Nuovi Oligocheti di Costa Rica. Bollettino dei musei di zoologia ed anatomia comparata della R. Universita di Torino, 19 (478), 1 - 4.

Michaelsen, W. (1900) Oligochaeta. Das Tierreich, 10, 1 - 575.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Clitellata

Order

Haplotaxida

Family

Octochaetidae