Pontoscolex Schmarda, 1861

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 : 7

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Genus Pontoscolex Schmarda, 1861

Pontoscolex Schmarda, 1861: 11 ; Beddard 1895a: 653; Michaelsen 1900: 424; Stephenson 1930: 895; Gates 1972: 53.

Type species. Pontoscolex arenicola Schmarda, 1861 (= Lumbricus corethrurus Müller, 1856 ). Distribution. Neotropical regions, e.g. Surinam, Guyana, Guatemala ( Gates 1972) except the cosmopolitan species Pontoscolex corethrurus .

Remarks. Only one species has been recorded in Vietnam.

References

Beddard, F. E. (1895 a) A monograph of the Order Oligochaeta. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 769 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 28557

Gates, G. E. (1972) Burmese Earthworms: An Introduction to the Systematics and Biology of Megadrile Oligochaetes with Special Reference to Southeast Asia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N. S. 62 (7), 1 - 326. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1006214

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

Muller, W. (1856) Lumbricus corethrurus, Burstenschwanz. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 23 (1), 38, 113 - 116.

Schmarda, L. K. (1861) Neue Tuberllarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden 1 (2). In: Schmarda, L. L. (Ed.), Neue Wirbellose Thiere beobachtet und Gesammelt uaf einer reise um die erder 1853 bis 1857. Leipzig, Engelmann.

Stephenson, J. (1930) The Oligochaeta. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 978 pp.