Species Chtonobdella aurita (Richardson, 1974)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Micobdella aurita Richardson, L.R. 1974. Amicibdella and Micobdella gen. nov. of eastern Australia (Hirudinoidea: Haemadipsidae S. L.). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 125-149.

 

Generic Combinations

• Chtonobdella aurita (Richardson, 1974). —
  Tessler, M., Barrio, A., Borda, E., Rood-Goldman, R., Hill, M. & Siddall, M.E. 2016. Description of a soft-bodied invertebrate with microcomputed tomography and revision of the genus Chtonobdella (Hirudinea: Haemadipsidae). Zoologica Scripta 45: 552–535

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adults and juveniles: sanguinivore, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Anterior edge of jaw with minute non-functional teeth, the middle and posterior parts of the jaw with a cutting edge, Lambertian organs present and half the length of the long duct, somite XXIII four annulate, first pair of nephridiopores labial, lateral to ocular areolae of III/IV or IV/V, four annuli per mid-body somite.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	ANNELIDA	20-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)