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Pheretima
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Species
Copper Flash
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassClitellata
- OrderCrassiclitellata
- FamilyMegascolecidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations1,096
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 262
- With media
- 92
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, China, Malaysia, Marshall Islands
Wikidata facts
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- Pheretima praepinguis (Big earthworm of Mount Emei).jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Pheretima is a genus of earthworms found mostly in New Guinea and parts of Southeast Asia.
Species belonging to the genus Pheretima have a clitellum, which is a band of glandular tissue present on segments 14 to 16.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pheretima” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.