{{Short description|Genus of earthworms}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Polypheretima elongata, 250 E Līpoa St, Kihei, HI, US imported from iNaturalist photo 30877937.jpg | image_caption = ''Polypheretima elongata'' | taxon = Polypheretima | authority = Michaelsen, 1934 | display_parents = 2 | synonyms = }} {{external media|width=225px |image1 = [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1403348-Polypheretima Images at iNaturalist] }}
'''''Polypheretima''''' is a genus of annelid earthworms belonging to the family Megascolecidae, erected by Wilhelm Michaelsen in 1934.<ref>{{cite journal| title=Oligochaeta from Sarawak| date=1934| last=Michaelsen| first=W.| journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science| series=2| volume= 77|issue=305| pages=1–47| doi=10.1242/jcs.s2-77.305.1| doi-access=free}}</ref> Species have been recorded mostly from Africa and Asia, with several apparently very locally endemic.<ref name = GBIF>[https://www.gbif.org/species/4812970 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'', ''Metapheretima'' and ''Pithemera''). 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>
==Species== The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:<ref name = GBIF/> {{div col|colwidth=20em}} # ''Polypheretima agathis'' {{Au|Lee, 1981}} # ''Polypheretima badia'' {{Au|(Ude, 1932)}} # ''Polypheretima bannaworensis'' {{Au|Y.Hong & James, 2008}} # ''Polypheretima bukidnonensis'' {{Au|Aspe & James, 2016}} # ''Polypheretima cattienensis'' {{Au|Nguyen, Tran & Nguyen, 2015}} # ''Polypheretima cokelat'' {{Au|Fahri & Amaliah, 2017}} # ''Polypheretima coplandi'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Polypheretima cordata'' {{Au|Nguyen, Tran & Nguyen, 2015}} # ''Polypheretima elongatoides'' {{Au|Fahri & Nguyen, 2017}} # ''Polypheretima fruticosa'' {{Au|Y.Hong & James, 2008}} # ''Polypheretima gatesi'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Polypheretima huonensis'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Polypheretima kalimpaaensis'' {{Au|Fahri & Amaliah, 2017}} # ''Polypheretima kershawae'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Polypheretima koyana'' {{Au|Michaelsen, 1934}} # ''Polypheretima lacertina'' {{Au|Chen, 1946}} # ''Polypheretima lesonea'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Polypheretima medialis'' {{Au|Lam, Nguyen & Nguyen, 2018}} # ''Polypheretima mekongmontis'' {{Au|T.T.Nguyen, Tran & A.D.Nguyen, 2014}} # ''Polypheretima militium'' {{Au|Nguyen, Tran & Nguyen, 2015}} # ''Polypheretima mindanaoensis'' {{Au|Aspe & James, 2015}} # ''Polypheretima neglecta'' {{Au|Easton, 1984}} # ''Polypheretima pagudpudensis'' {{Au|Y.Hong & James, 2011}} # ''Polypheretima parataprobanea'' {{Au|(Nguyen, 1993)}} # ''Polypheretima patae'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Polypheretima perlucidula'' {{Au|Y.Hong & James, 2008}} # ''Polypheretima phacellotheca'' {{Au|(Michaelsen, 1899)}} # ''Polypheretima sahlani'' {{Au|Fahri & Amaliah, 2017}} # ''Polypheretima sempolensis'' {{Au|Easton, 1979}} # ''Polypheretima tabhingensis'' {{Au|Lam, Nguyen, Hoang, D. & Nguyen, 2018}} # ''Polypheretima tamarae'' {{Au|Easton, 1984}} # ''Polypheretima tenebrica'' {{Au|Chen, 1946}} # ''Polypheretima zamboangensis'' {{Au|Aspe & James, 2016}} {{div col end}}
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Wikispecies inline|Megascolecidae}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q41157369}}
Category:Annelid genera Category:Megascolecidae