Traits taxon details
original description
(of Pheretima fornicata Gates, 1935) Gates, G. E. (1935). New earthworms from China: with notes on the synonymy of some Chinese species of Drawida and Pheretima. <em>Smithsonian Institution.</em> 3293. note: Tatsienlu, Szechwan, China [details]
original description
(of Perichaeta carnosa Goto & Hatai, 1899) Goto, S.; Hatai, S. (1899). New or imperfectly known species of earthworms. No. 2. <em>First High School, Tokyo.</em> 3(1), 13-24. [details] 
original description
(of Pheretima monstrifera Kobayashi, 1936) Kobayashi, Shinjiro. (1936). Earthworms from Koryo, Korea. <em>Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, series 4.</em> 11(1): 139-184., available online at https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.534560/page/n155/mode/2up page(s): 168, figure 11; note: from Bunkei, Zuizan and Heiten, type locality unstated. [details] Available for editors 
original description
(of Pheretima pingi Stephenson, 1925) Stephenson, J. (1925). Oligochaeta from Various Regions, including those collected by the Mount Everest Expedition 1924. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 95(3): 879-907., available online at https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1925.tb07109.x page(s): 891, figure 1; note: Nanking, China, from a single specimen collected by professor C. Ping [details] Available for editors 
status source
Chang, Chih-Han; Snyder, Bruce A.; Szlavecz, Katalin. (2016). Asian pheretimoid earthworms in North America north of Mexico: An illustrated key to the genera Amynthas, Metaphire, Pithemera, and Polypheretima (Clitellata: Megascolecidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4179(3): 495–529., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.7 page(s): 505, figure 8, key; note: record and diagnosis for N America, repeating record near Manhattan in Kansas (in Carrera- Martínez & Snyder 2016) [details] Available for editors 
subsequent type designation
Blakemore, Robert J. (2012). Amynthas carnosus (Goto & Hatai, 1899) redescribed on its neotype (Oligochaeta: Megadrilacea: Megascolecidae). <em>Journal of Species Research.</em> 1(1): 35-43., available online at http://koreascience.or.kr/article/JAKO201205759634024.page page(s): 36; note: neotype and redescription. Original syntypes presumed lost. [details] Available for editors 
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