{{Short description|Genus of earthworms}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Metapheretima | authority = Michaelsen, 1928 | display_parents = 2 | synonyms = }}
'''''Metapheretima''''' is a genus of annelid earthworms belonging to the family Megascolecidae, erected by Wilhelm Michaelsen in 1928.<ref>Michaelsen W (1928) ''Arkiv för Zoologi'', 20, A3.</ref> Species have been recorded mostly from Asia, Australia and Pacific Islands.<ref name = GBIF>[https://www.gbif.org/species/4812803 Global Biodiversity Information Facility: ''Polypheretima'' Michaelsen, 1934] (retrieved 20 June 2024)</ref>
This genus is similar to ''Pheretima'' and other "Pheretimoid" genera (also including ''Amynthas'', ''Archipheretima'', ''Duplodicodrilus'', ''Metaphire'', ''Pithemera'' and ''Polypheretima''). They form an important ecological and taxonomic group in the Oriental region.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://bio-eco.eis.ynu.ac.jp/eng/database/earthworm/Pheretimoids.pdf | title = Checklist of pheretimoid taxa | publisher = YNU | year = 2007 | access-date = 2008-05-26 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110722081245/http://bio-eco.eis.ynu.ac.jp/eng/database/earthworm/Pheretimoids.pdf | archive-date = 2011-07-22 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>Tung T Nguyen, Binh TT Tran, Duc Anh Nguyen (2014) Earthworms of the 'acaecate' ''Pheretima'' group in Vietnam (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae), with description of a new species from the Mekong delta. ''Zootaxa'' 3866 [1]: 105–121.</ref>
==Species== The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:<ref name = GBIF/> {{div col|colwidth=20em}} # ''Metapheretima agathis'' {{Au|K.Lee, 1981}} # ''Metapheretima andurili'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima apunae'' {{Au|K.Lee, 1981}} # ''Metapheretima arensi'' {{Au|Ude, 1932}} # ''Metapheretima buckerfieldi'' {{Au|K.Lee, 1981}} # ''Metapheretima deidrae'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima deirdrae'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima doni'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima dorii'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima durendali'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima elberti'' {{Au|Ude, 1932}} # ''Metapheretima elrondi'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima erromangae'' {{Au|K.Lee, 1981}} # ''Metapheretima excalaberi'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima glamdringi'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima kellneri'' {{Au|Ude, 1932}} # ''Metapheretima kilii'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima lindiae'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima noebiana'' {{Au|Michaelsen, 1934}} # ''Metapheretima orcrista'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima pallens'' {{Au|Ude, 1924}} # ''Metapheretima quinqueremis'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima septocta'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima sergei'' {{Au|Easton, 1984}} # ''Metapheretima simsi'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima sola'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima stingi'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima sucklingensis'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima swelaensis'' {{Au|Ude, 1932}} # ''Metapheretima tavvarinensis'' {{Au|(Cognetti, 1911)}} # ''Metapheretima tiencanhensis'' {{Au|(Pham, 1995)}} # ''Metapheretima triciae'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Metapheretima vietnamensis'' {{Au|(Thai, 1984)}} # ''Metapheretima wetzeli'' {{Au|Ude, 1932}} {{div col end}}
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Wikispecies inline|Megascolecidae}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q61609739}}
Category:Annelid genera Category:Megascolecidae