Amynthas morrisi (Beddard, 1892)

Singh, Ankit Kumar & Khanal, Laxman, 2025, Annotated Checklist of the Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Megadrili) of Nepal, Zootaxa 5589 (1), pp. 91-111 : 99

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.9
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14926075
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Amynthas morrisi (Beddard, 1892)
status

Treatment

Perichaeta morrisi Beddard, 1892b: 166 View in CoL .

Pheretima barbadensis (Beddard) View in CoL , Michaelsen 1900: 254

Pheretima morrisi (Beddard) , Michaelsen 1900: 287.

Pheretima hawayana var. lineata Gates, 1926: 154 .

Amynthas morrisi (Beddard) , Sims & Easton 1972: 236.

Further synonyms in Blakemore (2012, 2014).

Type Locality: Kew Gardens from Penang Malaysia ( Blakemore, 2012) .

Distribution in Nepal: Bagmati Province, Kathmandu District, Nepal Valley (Now it is known as Kathmandu Valley), East Himalaya (1370–1980 m asl) ( Thapa 2019), Machhegaun, Chandragiri and Tokha ( Singh 2022).

Distribution elsewhere: Australia, Bermuda, Europe, East or Southeast Asia; India, United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Turkey (Gates 1937; Sims & Gerard 1999; Monroy et al. 2003; Reynolds & Fragoso 2004; Blakemore 2007; Reynolds & Reynolds 2010; Sun et al. 2015; Subedi et al. 2018b; Reynolds & Mısırlıoğlu 2018).

Habitat: Abandoned land, crop fields, forest, grasslands, garden, gravel, sandy lawn, oak plantation ( Sharma & Bhardwaj 2014; Singh 2022).

Ecology: Anecic ( Singh et al. 2020); Endogeic ( Singh 2022)

Remarks: It is an exotic species ( Ahmed et al. 2020).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Annelida
Class	Clitellata
SubClass	Oligochaeta
Order	Crassiclitellata
Family	Megascolecidae
Genus	Amynthas