Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826)

Enterion fetidum Savigny, 1826: 182.

Eisenia foetida— Michaelsen 1900: 475.

Eisenia fetida— Reynolds & Cook 1976: 101 (corr. foetidum illegal emendation); Easton 1983: 480; Thai 2000a: 307; Blakemore 2002: 313, Figs 4.13–4.14; Blakemore 2008b.

See Blakemore (2002: 313) for more synonyms.

Type locality. France (Paris).

Type material. MNHN, France (Paris).

Records from Vietnam. This species was listed in Vietnam by Thai (2000a), but exact locality was not stated. It is also reported from the Mekong Delta by Fuchs et al. (2005), and Arnold (2009: 90).

Distribution. A cosmopolitan species (Blakemore 2002).

Vietnamese name. Giun toàn bắc phân ủ.

Remarks. It is an introduced species from Europe (Blakemore 2002). Many synonyms that have priority over E. andrei Bouche, 1972 that is thus a likely junior synonym (see Blakemore 2002, 2012).