Genus Austrohoplochaetella Jamieson, 1971

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• Austrohoplochaetella Jamieson, B.G.M. 1971. Earthworms (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) from Western Australia and their zoogeography. Journal of Zoology, London 165(4): 471-504 [490-491].

  Type species:

   Austrohoplochaetella kendricki Jamieson, 1971 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Diagnosis

Combined male and prostatic pores a pair on XVIII. Setae lumbricin or perichaetin. When lumbricin, ventral setal couples closely paired, dorsal setal couples more widely paired but much closer together than the separation between the ventral and dorsal couples (cd approx. 0.5 bc); dorsal median intersetal distance greater than half of the circumference. Meronephric; pharyngeal tufts present anteriorly; avesiculate exonephric (astomate?) meronephridia present throughout, decreasing in number posteriorly, excepting some terminal caudal segments in which there is a pair of single stomate megameronephridia only in each segment; these (always?) discharging (with some of the preceding meronephridia) into longitudinal excretory ducts which pass through several segments to the proctodaeal region. Gizzard present; calciferous glands absent; dorsal typhlosole present. Prostates tubular (type-species) to racemose. Spermathecae with extramural diverticula.

Diagnosis References

Jamieson, B.G.M. 2000. Native Earthworms of Australia (Megascolecidae, Megascolecinae). Enfield, New Hampshire, USA : Science Publishers, Inc. [CD ROM] 2506 pp. [Date published 12 December 2000] [187]

General References

Jamieson, B.G.M. 1971. A review of the megascolecoid earthworm genera (Oligochaeta) of Australia. Part III — The subfamily Megascolecinae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 69-102 [78] (as Notoscolex (part), p. 78, and as Megascolex (part), pp. 94–95)

Jamieson, B.G.M. 2000. Native Earthworms of Australia (Megascolecidae, Megascolecinae). Enfield, New Hampshire, USA : Science Publishers, Inc. [CD ROM] 2506 pp. [Date published 12 December 2000] [187] (as Austrohoplochaetella)

Nicholls, G.E. & Jackson, A.A. 1926. Some new species of Megascolex from South-Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 12(16): 141-147 (as Megascolex (part))

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