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Pontoscolex corethrurus (Muller, 1856)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Annelida
class
Clitellata
order
Crassiclitellata
family
Rhinodrilidae
genus
Pontoscolex
species
Pontoscolex corethrurus

Name

Synonyms
Eurydame insignis Kinberg, 1866
Lumbricus corethrurus Müller, 1856
Pontoscolex arenicola Schmarda, 1861
Pontoscolex hawaiensis Beddard, 1895
Pontoscolex hystrix (Perrier, 1872)
Pontoscolex insignis (Kinberg, 1867)
Pontoscolex lilljeborgi Eisen, 1896
Urochaeta corethrura (F.Müller, 1857)
Urochaeta dubia Horst, 1892
Urochaeta hystrix Perrier, 1872
Homonyms
Pontoscolex corethrurus (Muller, 1856)
Common names
Earthworm in English
Earthworm in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Beddard, F.E. (1895). A monograph of the order of Oligochaeta. <em>[Book].</em> 769 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  2. Borges, Sonia; Alfaro, Mónica; Maldonado, Sandra; Santiago, Ariel. (2006). A First Survey of the Earthworms of Bosque del Pueblo, Puerto Rico. <em>Caribbean journal of Science.</em> 42 (3): 366-370.
  3. Cognetti De Martiis, L. (1908). Lombrichi di Costa Rica e del Venezuela. <em>Atti Della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.</em> 43: 913-926 + 1 Plate.
  4. Cognetti de Martiis, L. (1906). Gli oligocheti della regione neotropicale. Parte secunda. <em>Memorie della Reale accademia delle scienze di Torino.</em> 2(56): 147-262 + Plate I-II.
  5. Cordero, E. H. (1944). Oligoquetos sudamericanos de la Família Glossoscolecidae, IV. Sobre algunas especies de Venezuela. <em>Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo.</em> 14(1): 1-6.
  6. Cremonesi, Marcus Vinicius; Santos, Alessandra; Rozane, Danilo Eduardo; Carolina Bartz, Marie Luise; Brown, George Gardner. (2021). Earthworm species in Musa spp. plantations in Brazil and worldwide. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1033: 1-33. 10.3897/zookeys.1033.54331
  7. James, Samuel W.; Bartz, Marie L. C.; Stanton, David W. G.; Conrado, Ana C.; Dupont, Lise; Taheri, Shabnam; Da Silva, Elodie; Cunha, Luís; Brown, George G. (2019). A neotype for Pontoscolex corethrurus (Müller, 1857) (Clitellata). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4545(1): 124-132. 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.1.7
  8. Michaelsen, W. (1909). Die Oligochäten Westindiens. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher. Supplementheft.</em> 11 (1): 13-32 + 1 Plate.
  9. Ortíz-Gamino, D.; Gregorio, J.; Cunha, L.; Martínez-Romero, E.; Fragoso, C.; Ortíz-Ceballos, Á. I. (2020). Population genetics and diversity structure of an invasive earthworm in tropical and temperate pastures from Veracruz, Mexico. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 941: 49-69. 10.3897/zookeys.941.49319
  10. Reynolds (2015), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287165317_Reynolds_JW_2015_A_checklist_by_counties_of_earthworms_Oligochaeta_Glossoscolecidae_Lumbricidae_Megascolecidae_Ocnerodrilidae_and_Octochaetidae_in_Hawaii_USA_Megadrilogica_197_115-122_paper_in_English
  11. Reynolds, J. W., and D. G. Cook, 1993: Nomenclatura oligochaetologica. Supplementum tertium. A catalogue of names, descriptions and type specimens of the Oligochaeta. New Brunswick Museum Monographic Series (Natural Science), no. 9. vi + 33.
  12. Reynolds, J. W.; Jones, A. G. (2005). The earthworms (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, and Lumbricidae) of the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean. <em>Megadrilogica.</em> 10(10): 75-86. [English; abstr. English, Spanish, French].
  13. Reynolds, John Warren, and Mark Julian Wetzel, 2004: Terrestrial Oligochaeta (Annelida: Clitellata) in North America north of Mexico. Megadrilogica, vol. 9, no. 11. 71-98.
  14. Reynolds, John Warren, and Mark Julian Wetzel, 2008: Terrestrial Oligochaeta (Annelida: Clitellata) in North America, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Bermuda. Megadrilogica, vol. 12, no. 12. 157-208.
  15. Reynolds, John Warren, and Mark Julian Wetzel, 2012: Terrestrial Oligochaeta (Annelida: Clitellata) in North America, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Bermuda. III. Megadrilogica, vol. 15, no. 8. 191-211.
  16. Rosa, D. (1896). I Lombrichi raccolti a Sumatra dal Dott. Elio Modigliani. <em>Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova.</em> 36: 502-532 + Plate I.
  17. Sims, R.W.; Gerard, B.M. (1999). Earthworms. Notes for the identification of British species. <em>Synopsis of the British Fauna (N. S).</em> 31 (revised) : i-viii + 1-169.
  18. Sousa, Sandriel Costa; Hernández-García, Luis Manuel; Beckman, Ruana Aretha Farias Santiago; Rousseau, Guillaume Xavier. (2026). Earthworm species (Crassiclitellata) from Eastern Amazonia and Northern Cerrado, Brazil. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5777(1): 119-138. 10.11646/zootaxa.5777.1.5
  19. Taheri, Shabnam; James, Samuel W.; Roy, V.; Decaëns, T.; Williams, B.; Anderson, F.; Rougerie, R.; Chang, C.-H.; Brown, G.; Cunha, L.; Stanton, D.; Da Silva, E.; Chen, J.-H.; Lemmon, A.; Moriarty Lemmon, E.; Bartz, M.; Baretta, D.; Barois, I.; Lapied, E.; Coulis, M.; Dupont, L. (2018). Complex taxonomy of the 'brush tail' peregrine earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 124: 60-70. 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.021
  20. Taheri, Shabnam; Pelosi, Céline; Dupont, Lise. (2018). Harmful or useful? A case study of the exotic peregrine earthworm morphospecies Pontoscolex corethrurus. <em>Soil Biology and Biochemistry.</em> 116: 277-289. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.10.030
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