Perionyx excavatus Perrier, 1872: 126

Singh, Ankit Kumar & Khanal, Laxman, 2025, Annotated Checklist of the Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Megadrili) of Nepal, Zootaxa 5589 (1), pp. 91-111 : 101

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.9

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:06A3910A-51ED-431F-A26E-24597DE4294F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14926077

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/161F8792-0020-FFA7-FF36-FCFE961FAD9E

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Plazi

scientific name

Perionyx excavatus Perrier, 1872: 126
status

 

Perionyx excavatus Perrier, 1872: 126 View in CoL

Perionyx gruenewaldi Michaelsen, 1891 a: 33.

Perionyx parvulus Stephenson, 1916: 321 .

Perionyx fulvus Stephenson, 1916: 322 .

For full list of synonyms see Blakemore (2012).

Type locality: Saigon (10.8231°N, 106.6297°E), Vietnam GoogleMaps

Distribution in Nepal: Bagmati Province, Bhaktapur District, Bageshwori Reserve Forest; Kavreplanchok District, Punyamata khola, Rohini Bhanjyang, Nagarkot forest (2085masl); Kathmandu District, Tokha; Lalitpur District, Mahadev Khola (1450masl); Sugure Khola in Godawari (1700masl) ( Thapa,2019)

Distribution elsewhere: Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Denmark, England, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malay Archipelago, Philippines, Siam, Srilanka, South Africa ( Gates 1972; Easton 1984; Mandal et al. 2010; Reynold et al. 2012; Hernandez-García et al. 2023).

Habitat: Agricultural fields ( Rajkhowa et al. 2015), compost ( Singh 2022).

Ecology: Epigeic (Dhar & Chaudhary 2020).

Remarks: In Latin the meaning of excavates means hollow so its name after the hole like region present of the male pore. It has been reported in compost from 1450–2085 m asl further habitat should be explored in Nepal.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Clitellata

SubClass

Oligochaeta

Order

Crassiclitellata

Family

Megascolecidae

Genus

Perionyx

Loc

Perionyx excavatus Perrier, 1872: 126

Singh, Ankit Kumar & Khanal, Laxman 2025
2025
Loc

Perionyx parvulus

Stephenson, J. 1916: 321
1916
Loc

Perionyx fulvus

Stephenson, J. 1916: 322
1916
Loc

Perionyx excavatus

Perrier, E. 1872: 126
1872
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