Species Digaster keasti Jamieson, 1977

Museums

Regional Maps

• Digaster keasti Jamieson, B.G.M. 1977. Bioluminescent Australian Earthworms, I. Digaster keasti sp. nov. (Megascolecidae), the first record of an oligochaete from Fraser Island. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 88: 83-88 [83-88].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G8482, Fraser Island [25°10'S 153°10'E].
  Paratype(s) QM G8869-8873.
• Cryptodrilus queenslandica Spencer, W.B. 1900. Further descriptions of Australian earthworms, Part I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 13(1): 29-67 [41-42] [junior homonym of Perissogaster queenslandica Fletcher, 1889].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV F40593, near Maryborough, Queensland [ca 25°32'S 152°42'E].
  Paralectotype(s) NMV G1448, near Maryborough, Queensland [25°32'S 152°42'E]; NMV F4068 (considered to be a paralectotype by Jensz & Smith (1969)), Toowoomba, Queensland [27°34'S 151°57'E]; NMV G69 (considered to be a paralectotype by Jensz & Smith (1969)), Jandina, Queensland; NMV F4070 (considered to be a paralectotype by Jensz & Smith (1969)), near Gayndah, Queensland [25°37'S 151°37'E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Jensz, R.L. & Smith, B.J. 1969. Catalogue of Baldwin Spencer earthworm types in the National Museum of Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 29: 85-110 [90-91].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [375]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

General References

Bage, R. 1910. Contributions to our knowledge of Australian earthworms — The Nephridia. Pt II. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 22: 224-243 [236] (as Notoscolex queenslandica)

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 [79] (as Notoscolex queenslandica)

Jensz, R.L. & Smith, B.J. 1969. Catalogue of Baldwin Spencer earthworm types in the National Museum of Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 29: 85-110 [90-91] (as Cryptodrilus queenslandica)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	OLIGOCHAETA	18-Apr-2011	MODIFIED	Dr Robin Wilson
		15-Jul-2010	MODIFIED