An Update of Species in the <i>Metaphire Genus</i> along with <i>Metaphire Inclara</i> (Gates, 1932) (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae): A New Record in India
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study was conducted to contribute to the understanding of Asian biodiversity in terms of earthworms. Specimens were collected from the soil, fixed in 5% formalin, transferred to ethanol for preservation, and examined using a stereomicroscope with taxonomic characteristics. This study presents the initial documentation of Metaphire inclara (Gates, 1932) in India. This increased the number of species in the genus of Metaphire from 11 to 12 for India. As updated, the species in the genus of Metaphire in India are Metaphire andamanensis (Michaelsen, 1907), Metaphire anomala (Michaelsen, 1907), Metaphire bahli (Gates, 1945), Metaphire birmanica (Rosa, 1888), Metaphire californica (Kinberg, 1867), Metaphire harrietensis (Stephenson, 1925), Metaphire houlleti (Perrier, 1872), Metaphire peguana (Rosa, 1890), Metaphire planata (Gates, 1926), Metaphire posthuma (Vaillant, 1868), and Metaphire scitula (Gates, 1936). We offer a concise description, distribution data, an identification key, and a comprehensive species list for the taxa under investigation. Keywords: Earthworms, India, Metaphire , new record, taxonomy
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".