New records of earthworms (Clitellata: Oligochaeta) from Georgia, USA, including eight new state records
Author
Mcgee, Joseph M.
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA, USA 31061
Author
Carrera-Martínez, Roberto
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA 53706
Author
Callaham Jr, Mac A.
Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, USA 30602
Author
Snyder, Bruce A.
0000-0003-4116-4362
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-04-16
5437
4
510
522
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.4
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.4
1175-5326
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Amynthas tokioensis
(
Beddard, 1892
)
Murray Co.:
(2) Chattahoochee NF,
34° 51’ 59” N
,
84° 38’ 38” W
, Rough Ridge fire, Burned Plot 1, litter, hand coll.,
5 Oct 2017
, Coll: BA Snyder, MA Callaham,
et al
.
Previously recorded:
Harris, Henry. This Asian species is widely distributed in the eastern
US
(
Chang
et al.
2016
).
Remarks.
Because
Amynthas agrestis
is present at this site as well, this represents the first reported cooccurrence in
Georgia
of two of ‘the big three’ pheretimoid earthworms that often co-invade further north in North America (see
Chang
et al
. 2018
).
Metaphire hilgendorfi
is only reported once from
Georgia
(Clarke Co., see below), and
Amynthas tokioensis
has only been reported from Harris and Henry Counties (as junior synonym
Metaphire levis
, see
Chang
et al
. 2021
).