Metaphire dranfocana (Do and Huynh, 1993)

Phan, Quoc T., Lam, Dang H. & Nguyen, Anh D., 2025, The Comprehensive Checklist of the Earthworm Genus Metaphire (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) in Vietnam, Species Diversity 30 (1), pp. 37-48 : 41

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.30.37

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Metaphire dranfocana (Do and Huynh, 1993)
status

 

24. Metaphire dranfocana (Do and Huynh, 1993)

Pheretima dranfocana Do and Huynh in Thai et al., 1993: 12, fig. 1A.

Amynthas? dranfocanus : Blakemore 2007: 31.

Amynthas dranfocanus : T. T. Nguyen et al. 2016: 25.

Metaphire dranfocana : Lam et al. 2020: 19.

Type locality. Vietnam (Dak Lak: Drang Phoc) .

Type material. CTU ( EW.134.h01, EW.134.p02).

Distribution. Dak Lak (Yok Don NP) (Thai et al. 1993; T. T. Nguyen et al. 2016).

Remarks. Tung T. Nguyen et al. (2016) assigned the species to the genus Amynthas , however, the original description of Thai et al. (1993) mentioned the male pore located deeply inside the copulatory pouches. Lam et al. (2020) has re-examined the type specimen and transferred the species to the genus Metaphire due to the present of large copulatory pouches.

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Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Clitellata

Order

Crassiclitellata

Family

Megascolecidae

Genus

Metaphire

Loc

Metaphire dranfocana (Do and Huynh, 1993)

Phan, Quoc T., Lam, Dang H. & Nguyen, Anh D. 2025
2025
Loc

Metaphire dranfocana

Lam, D. H. & Nguyen, A. D. & Nguyen, T. T. 2020: 19
2020
Loc

Amynthas dranfocanus

Nguyen, T. T. & Nguyen, A. D. & Tran, B. T. T. & Blakemore, R. J. 2016: 25
2016
Loc

Amynthas? dranfocanus

Blakemore, R. J. 2007: 31
2007
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