WoRMS taxon details
original description
Gates, G. E. (1933). The earthworms of Burma. IV. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 35: 413-606., available online at https://recordsofzsi.com/index.php/zsoi/article/view/162584/113075 [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source
Gates, G. E. (1936). The Earthworms of Burma. V. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 38(4), 377–468., available online at https://recordsofzsi.com/index.php/zsoi/article/view/162306 note: further Tonoscolex are described and Notoscolex birmanicus is designated type species of Tonoscolex [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Reynolds, J. W.; Wetzel, M. J. (2018). Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica – A catalogue of names, descriptions and type specimens. Editio Secunda. , available online at https://nomenclatura-oligochaetologica.inhs.illinois.edu/ note: checklist [details]
identification resource
Ahmed, Shakoor; Emiliyamma, K. G.; Marimuthu, Nithyanandam; Sajan, Sheikh; Julka, J. M. (2022). A new species of the genus Tonoscolex Gates, 1933 (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) from India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5124(3): 375-382., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5124.3.6 note: checklist of Indian species and a key to species [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Gates (1933: 484) included six species (one new species) in Tonoscolex, without designating a type species. Gates created Tonoscolex for "Burmese worms formerly referred to Notoscolex." Gates wrote that "Three Indian species of Notoscolex and one species of Megascolex are probably to be included in the new genus. Further discussion of the relationship of Tonoscolex to Megascolex and Notoscolex as well as a consideration of the classification of the Megascolecinae is postponed for lack of space to a later occasion." [details]
Type species Gates (1933) did not designate a type species of Tonoscolex (6 species were included), but in 1936 he did a subsequent designation of Notoscolex birmanicus as the type species. He had included N. birmanicus in Tonoscolex as the first mentioned taxon, but had provided no description of it. [details]
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