Earthworm species. A searchable database*
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FAMILY GENUS SPECIES AUTHOR YEAR LITERATURE VALID_GENUS VALID_SPECIES TYPE REFERENCE DESCRIPTION
Megascolecidae Megascolex indicus Horst 1883 Notes Leyden Mus.5:186. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta ungulata Bell 1886 Zool.Rec.22:21. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta peregrina Fletcher 1886 Proc.Linn.Soc.N.S.Wales 1:969. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta mirabilis Bourne 1887 Proc.Zool.Soc.Lond.1887:669. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta heterochaeta Michaelsen 1891 Abh.Ver.Hamb.11:6. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta ijimae Rosa 1891 Ann.Mus.Wien 6:402. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta nipponica Beddard 1892 Zool.Jb.Syst.6:760. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta divergens Michaelsen 1892 Arch.Naturg.48:243. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta campestris Goto & Hatai 1898 Annot.Zool.Jap.2:67. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta heteropoda Goto & Hatai 1898 Annot.Zool.Jap.2:69. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima marenzelleri Cognetti 1906 Atti.Acad.Torino 41:780. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima divergens yunnanensis Stephenson 1912 Rec.Ind.Mus.7:274. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima indica cameroni Stephenson 1932 Bull.Raffles Mus.7:47. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima sheni Chen 1935 Bull.Fan.Mem.Inst.Biol.6:38. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima oyamai Ohfuchi 1937 Res.Bull.Saito Ho-on Kai Mus.12:62. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima homoseta Chen 1938 Cont.Biol.Lab.Sci.Soc.China (Zool.) 12:414. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima morii Kobayashi 1938 Sci.Rept.Tohoku Univ.4(13):161. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima tajiroensis Ohfuchi 1938 Res.Bull.Saito Ho-on Kai Mus.15:46. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima torii Ohfuchi 1941 Sci.Rept.Tohoku Univ.(4)16:244. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima clerica Benham 1947 Trans.Roy.Soc.N.Z.76:423. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima hatomajimensis Ohfuchi 1957 J.Agric.Sci.Tokyo vol.3.no.2:245. Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima imajimai Ishizuka K. 1999 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series A (Zoology)p.114 Amynthas corticis - Blakemore 2003
Megascolecidae Pheretima nipparensis Ishizuka K. 1999 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series A (Zoology)p.119 Amynthas corticis - Blakemore 2003
Megascolecidae Pheretima confusa Ishizuka K. 1999 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series A (Zoology)p.116 Amynthas corticis - http://www.annelida.net/earthworm/Japanese%20Earthworms/Japanese%20Earthworms.pdf
Megascolecidae Pheretima setosa Ishizuka et al. 2000 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima fulva Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series A (Zoology)p.21 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima invisa Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series a (Zoology)p. 189 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima monticola Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series a (Zoology)p. 191 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima mutabilis Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series a (Zoology)p. 179 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima nubicola Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series a (Zoology)p. 180 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima silvestris Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series A (Zoology)p.18 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima subalpina Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series A (Zoology)p.25 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima subrotunda Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series A (Zoology)p.13 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima subterranea Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series A (Zoology)p.22 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima umbrosa Ishizuka K. 2000 Bulletin of the National Science Museum series a (Zoology) p.187 Amynthas corticis - -
Megascolecidae Amynthas noninvisus Blakemore 2010 Opusc. Zool. Budapest 41: 193. Amynthas corticis nom. nov. pro Pheretima invisa Ishizuka, 2000 -
Megascolecidae Amynthas nonsetosus Blakemore 2010 Opusc. Zool. Budapest 41: 193. Amynthas corticis nom. nov. pro Pheretima setosa Ishizuka et al., 2000 -
Megascolecidae Pheretima peregrina v. papillosa Tzelepis 1943 Simvoli Olig Ell. Amynthas corticis -
Megascolecidae Pheretima medicampestris Nakamura 1999 Edaphologia 64:2 Amynthas corticis - nom. nov. pro. Ph. casmpestris Lee, 1952
Megascolecidae Pheretima corrugata kulingiana Chen 1933 Cont.Biol.Lab.Sci.Soc.China (Zool.) 9:278. Amynthas corrugatus kulingianus - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima corrugata Chen 1931 Cont.Biol.Lab.Sic.Soc.China (Zool.) 7:131. Amynthas corrugatus - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima copulata Gates 1937 Bull.Mus.Comp.Zool.80(7):31. Amynthas copulatus - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima copulatrix Michaelsen 1922 Capita Zool.1(3):49. Amynthas copulatrix - -
Megascolecidae Amynthas conferticurtus Hong & James 2009 J. Nat. Hist. 43(21-22): 1241 Amynthas conferticurtus - -
Megascolecidae Amynthas conchipapillatus Sun, Zhao & Qiu 2010 Zootaxa 2680:26-32 Amynthas conchipapillatus - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima compta Gates 1932 Rec.Ind.Mus.34:511. Amynthas comptus - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima composita Gates 1932 Rec.Ind.Mus.34:430. Amynthas compositus - -
Megascolecidae Perichaeta communissima Goto & Hatai 1899 Annot.Zool.Jap.3:23. Amynthas communissimus - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima colossus Cognetti 1911 Boll.Mus.Torino 26(641):6. Amynthas colossus - -
Megascolecidae Pheretima collini Ude 1924 Zool.Anz.61:84. Amynthas collini - -
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