Species Antarctodrilus niger (Beddard, 1894)
- Hesperodrilus niger Beddard, F.E. 1894. Preliminary notice of South American Tubificidae collected by Dr Michaelson, including the description of a branchiate form. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 205-210 [208].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1904.10.20. 489-95 longitudinally sectioned specimen, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands (stream).Type locality references:
Michaelsen, W. 1900. Oligochaeta. Das Tierreich 10: 1-565 [38] ("Zwischen Algen in einem langsam fliessenden Bach. Falkland-Inseln (Port Stanley)"). - Hesperodrilus albus Beddard, F.E. 1894. Preliminary notice of South American Tubificidae collected by Dr Michaelson, including the description of a branchiate form. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 205-210 [209].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1904.10.20. 487-8 logitudinally sectioned specimen, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands (freshwater pond).Type locality references:
Beddard, F.E. 1895. A Monograph of the Order of Oligochaeta. Oxford : Clarendon Press. [256] ("Falkland Island, in a pond"); Michaelsen, W. 1900. Oligochaeta. Das Tierreich 10: 1-565 [39] ("Im Süsswasser-Tumpel. Falkland Inseln (Port Stanley)"). - Hesperodrilus pellucidus Beddard, F.E. 1894. Preliminary notice of South American Tubificidae collected by Dr Michaelson, including the description of a branchiate form. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 205-210 [210].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1904.10.20. 482-4 longitudinally sectioned specimen (specimen not named, but clearly of the niger/albus type and presumably Beddard's material of pellucidus), Uschuaia, Tierra del Feugo, Argentina (swampy pool in woodland).Type locality references:
Beddard, F.E. 1895. A Monograph of the Order of Oligochaeta. Oxford : Clarendon Press. [256] (Uschuia, South America); Michaelsen, W. 1900. Oligochaeta. Das Tierreich 10: 1-565 [39] (locality listed as "Im Sumpf-Tümpel im Walde. Süd-Feuerland"). - Phreodrilus africanus Goddard, E.J. & Malan, D.E. 1913. Contribution to a knowledge of South African Oligochaeta. Part II. Description of a new species of Phreodrilus. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 3: 242-248 [242].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, top of Table Mountain, South Africa.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Michaelsen, W. 1903. Die Oligochaten der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, nebst Erorterung der Terricolenfauna oceanischer Inseln, insbesondere der Inseln des subantarktischen Meeres. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 3: 131-168 [136]
- Brinkhurst, R.O. 1965. A taxonomic revision of the Phreodrilidae (Oligochaeta). Journal of Zoology, London 147: 363-386 [378]
Distribution
States
Tasmania
IBRA
Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
- South Africa
Australian Region
- Australia
- Tasmania
Neotropical Region
- Argentina
- Tierra del Fuego
- Falkland Islands
Ecological Descriptors
Detritivore, interstitial waters, lotic freshwater.
General References
Brinkhurst, R.O. 1982. Additional aquatic Oligochaeta from Australia and New Zealand. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 78: 1-13 [5] (provides first records and brief description of Australian specimens)
Pinder, A.M. & Brinkhurst, R.O. 1997. A review of the Phreodrilidae (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Tubificida) of Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 11: 443-523 [457] (provides description and first illustrations of Australian specimens)
History of changes
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