Plazi provides digitized taxonomic treatments based on the 2015 journal article 'Three new earthworm species of the genus Polypheretima Michaelsen, 1934 (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Vietnam'. The data originates from the journal Zootaxa, volume 3905, issue 4, pages 593-600. The dataset is published under an Open Access (green) license.
Use Cases
- Taxonomic classification of new species based on the digitized treatment descriptions.
- Comparative morphology studies of the genus Polypheretima using the published species data.
- Biodiversity inventory compilation for Vietnam using the recorded species occurrences.
Strengths
- Data is based on a peer-reviewed publication in Zootaxa, a recognized taxonomic journal.
- The dataset has a clear provenance, citing the original authors, publication year (2015), and DOI.
Limitations
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Plazi, based on the journal article by Nguyen, Tung T., Tran, Binh T. T., Nguyen, Anh D. (2015).
- Collection Method
- Digitization of taxonomic treatments from the original publication.
- Geography
- Vietnam