''Amynthas tokioensis'', the Asian jumping worm, is a species of earthworm in the family ''

Megascolecidae The Megascolecidae is a taxonomic family of earthworms which is native to Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and both South East Asia and North America. All species of Megascolecidae belong to the Clitellata class. Megascolecidae are a large fami ...

''. It is native to Japan and the Korean Peninsula. It is an invasive species in North America. These worms engage in

parthenogenetic Parthenogenesis (; from the Greek grc, παρθένος, translit=parthénos, lit=virgin, label=none + grc, γένεσις, translit=génesis, lit=creation, label=none) is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development ...

reproduction.A guide to identifying the Asian earthworms ''Amynthas agrestis'', ''Amynthas tokioensis'', and ''Metaphire hilgendorfi''
by Chih-Han Chang. Extracted from ''Asian pheretimoid earthworms in North America north of Mexico: An illustrated key to the genera ''Amynthas'', ''Metaphire'', ''Pithemera'', and ''Polypheretima by C.-H. Chang and B. Snyder and K. Szlavecz. ''Zootaxa'' 4179 (3), 495–529. 2016. Accessed August 20, 2021.

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