A new earthworm species of the genus Amynthas (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) from northern Taiwan, false synonymy between Amynthas corticis (Kinberg, 1867) and Amynthas sheni (Chen, 1935) and other taxonomic issues relating to A. corticis Author Shen, Huei-Ping Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, 1 Ming-shen East Road, Jiji, Nantou 552, Taiwan Author Chang, Chih-Han Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, 1 Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan & Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, 1 Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan chihhanchang@ntu.edu.tw & chihhanchang.ntu@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2025 2025-02-19 5589 1 112 126 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.10 journal article 308306 10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.10 ed8120b4-c685-4cd7-88a3-0aa7c079d337 1175-5326 14896799 B8D0015B-EF2D-4890-92AD-94CB815B8658
TABLE 4. Mean uncorrected p -distances (%) between species investigated based on the COI gene.
Amynthas popi sp. nov.Amynthas corticisAmynthas shengtangmontisAmynthas biorbisAmynthas carnosus
Amynthas corticis16.0
Amynthas shengtangmontis15.015.8
Amynthas biorbis17.016.417.3
Amynthas carnosus16.316.518.318.7
Amynthas gageodo17.317.618.618.215.8