Green Stink Worm
Amynthas hupeiensis
Animalia
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 1-2 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- East Asia
- Movement
- Burrowing
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Toxins
- Status
- Rare
About
This earthworm lives in the damp soil of forests and grassy meadows. It leaps up to fifteen centimeters into the air when disturbed by vibrations.
Life cycle
- 1.cocoonA small lemon-shaped cocoon secreted by the clitellum shelters one or more developing worms in the soil until they hatch.
- 2.juvenileA young worm hatches already resembling the adult but thinner and paler, without the swollen clitellum band.
- 3.adultFully grown, with a distinct saddle-like clitellum band near the head.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Class
- Clitellata
- Order
- Crassiclitellata
- Family
- Megascolecidae
- Genus
- Amynthas
- Species
- Amynthas hupeiensis