Metaphire posthuma
Creators: name: Tiwari, Nalini
name: Tiwari, Pooja
name: Gupta, Neelima
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Crassiclitellata
Megascolecidae
Metaphire
Metaphire posthuma

description: 57. Metaphire posthuma (Vaillant, 1868)
Perichaeta posthuma Vaillant, 1868: 228.
Perichaeta affinis Perrier, 1872: 106.
Megascolex posthumus: Vaillant, 1889: 72.
Amyntas posthumus: Michaelsen, 1899b: 74.
Pheretima posthuma: Michaelsen, 1900: 295.
Pheretima incerta Beddard, 1912: 197.
Metaphire posthuma: Sims & Easton, 1972: 239 (posthuma–group).
Metaphire posthuma (Vaillant). Blakemore 2016: 537.
T. Java. TM. MNHN 656–71. D. Bihar: Bhagalpur (Soota 1966), Jalla, Patna (Gates 1960), Purneah (Soota 1966), Pusa (Soota 1966). Haryana: Ambala (Dhiman & Battish 2006; Sharma & Bhardwaj 2014; Ahmad et al. 2020b), Karnal (Sharma & Bhardwaj 2014; Ahmad et al. 2020b), Kurukshetra (Sharma & Bhardwaj 2014; Ahmad et al. 2020b), Panipat (Dhiman & Battish 2006; Ahmad et al. 2020b), Yamuna Nagar (Sharma & Bhardwaj 2014; Garg & Julka 2017; Ahmad et al. 2020b). Punjab: Ajnala (Singh et al. 2020), Anandpur Sahib (Dhiman & Battish 2006), Balloke village (Koul & Kocher 2016), Choorpur village (Koul & Kocher 2016), Dairian village (Koul & Kocher 2016), Faridkot (Dhiman & Battish 2006), Ferozepur (Soota 1966), Garhshankar forests (Dhiman & Battish 2006), Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (Mohan et al. 2013; Singh et al. 2020), Gurdaspur (Battish & Dhiman 2002; Dhiman & Battish 2006), Harike (Singh et al. 2022), Hosiarpur (Soota 1966; Battish & Dhiman 2002), Jagraon (Battish & Dhiman 2002), Jalandhar (Soota 1966; Dhiman & Battish 2006), Jassian village (Koul & Kocher 2016), Kanjali (Singh et al. 2022), Kapurthala (Battish & Dhiman 2002; Dhiman & Battish 2006), Kohali (Singh et al. 2020), Ludhiana (Soota 1966; Battish & Dhiman 2002; Dhiman & Battish 2006), Lopoke (Singh et al. 2020), Nandpur (Battish & Dhiman 2002), Neshta (Singh et al. 2020), PAU (Koul & Kocher 2016), Phagwara (Soota 1966), Phillaur (Dhiman & Battish 2006), Ropar (Singh et al. 2022), Sahnewal (Battish & Dhiman 2002), Samrala (Battish & Dhiman 2002). Uttar Pradesh: Agra (Soota 1966; Verma et al. 2010; Singh & Prakash 2012; Yadav 2014), Allahabad (Soota 1966), Aligarh (Verma et al. 2010; Yadav 2014), Badaun (Verma et al. 2010; Prakash 2017), Banda (Verma et al. 2010), Barabanki (Halder et al. 2007), Bareilly (Singh & Prakash 2012; Prakash 2017), Basti (Halder et al. 2007; Verma et al. 2010), Bhujouli village, Deoria (Halder et al. 2007), Bindra Ban (Stephenson 1920), Bokhira village, Basti (Halder et al. 2007), Bulandshahar (Verma et al. 2010), Chandoli (Verma et al. 2010), Chittrakut (Verma et al. 2010), Dakshin Darwaza, Basti (Halder et al. 2007), Deoria (Halder et al. 2007), Etah (Verma et al. 2010), Gorakhpur (Halder et al. 2007; Verma et al. 2010; Kumar and Singh 2013), Hapur (Verma et al. 2010), Jhansi (Verma et al. 2010), Kanpur (Verma et al. 2010), Kushinagar (Singh & Singh 2023), Lakhimpur Kheri (Verma et al. 2010), Lucknow (Soota 1966; Verma et al. 2010), Mathura (Verma et al. 2010), Meerut (Verma et al. 2010; Singh & Prakash 2012; Prakash 2017), Mirzapur (Verma et al. 2010), Moradabad (Verma et al. 2010; Singh & Prakash 2012; Prakash 2017), Mohaddipur, Gorakhpur (Halder et al. 2007), Pilibhit (Verma et al. 2010; Prakash 2017), Rajghat, Gorakhpur (Halder et al. 2007), Rampur (Verma et al. 2010), Saharanpur (Soota 1966; Singh & Prakash 2012; Prakash 2017), Shahjahanpur (Prakash 2017), Santkabirnagar (Verma et al. 2010), Sonbhadra (Verma et al. 2010), Unnao (Verma et al. 2010), Eastern Uttar Pradesh (Rai & Nath 2014; Rai 2017). West Bengal: Bankura (Halder 1998), Burdwan (Halder 1998), Coochbehar (Halder 1998), Howrah (Halder 1998; Goswami & Gupta 2015), Jalpaiguri (Halder 1998), Kolkata (Halder 1998; Halder et al. 2007), Malda (Halder 1998), Midnapur (Halder 1998), Murshidabad (Halder 1998), Nadia (Halder 1998), North 24 Parganas (Halder 1998; Bandyopadhyay et al. 2008), South 24 parganas (Halder 1998; Goswami & Mondal 2015), West Dinajpur (Halder 1998). E. Endogeic. G. Exotic.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Nalini, Tiwari, Pooja, Gupta, Neelima & Yadav, Shweta, 2024, An Annotated Checklist of Earthworms (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta) of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, pp. 251-294 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 271, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12732734