Jeju-do earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megadrilacea) - Quelpart Island revisited
Author
Blakemore, Robert J.
text
Journal of Species Research
2013
2013-02-28
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http://dx.doi.org/10.12651/jsr.2013.2.1.015
journal article
10.12651/JSR.2013.2.1.015
2713-8615
Amynthas kanrazanus incretus
(
Kobayashi, 1937
)
Remarks.
Amynthas kanrazanus incretus
(
Kobayashi, 1937: 343
, fig. 4) syn.
Amynthas alveolatus
Hong & James, 2001 after Blakemore (2015), from Mt Halla.
Amynthas yongshilensis
(an
A. tokioensis
synonym) was also described from Mt Halla, Yongshil, and stated (Hong & James, 2001: 81) only to be similar to their subsequent
A. alveolatus
yet, remarkably,
A. alveolatus
- that is an obvious junior synonym of
A. kanrazanus incretus
from the same type-locality - was not compared to any previous species! Moreover, their subsequent species,
A. geomunensis
Hong & James, 2001: 82, was similarly compared only their two preceding names ignoring similarity to
A. kanrazanus
.
The sub-species
A. kanrazanus incretus
was included under its nominal taxon by
Song & Paik (1969: 136
,
1970: 10
), but this requires further consideration and it is here provisionally restored until a
neotype
can be select- ed from
topotypes
(and DNA extracted).
Taxonomic note.
Kobayashi’s name
Pheretima kanrazana
var.
increta
(cf.
Pheretima incerta
Beddard, 1912: 197
) was misspelled as “
incertus
” in
Sims & Easton (1972: 237
, 243) and this has been copied over to iBOLD, the Barcode of Life and other websites.