Subgenus Diporochaeta (Diporochaeta) Beddard, 1890

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• Diporochaeta Beddard, F.E. 1890. Observations upon an American species of Perichaeta, and upon some other members of the genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1890: 52-69 [55-56].

  Type species:

   Perichaeta intermedia Beddard, 1889 (=Diporochaeta intermedia (Beddard, 1889)) by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA) ; Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), 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) ; Tas, Vic: Flinders (FLI) ; Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Diagnosis

Setae more than 8 per segment in posterior or, usually, all setigerous segments. A pair of combined pores of vasa deferentia and tubular or tubuloracemose prostates on XVIII. Last hearts in XII or XIII. Gizzard in V or VI, rarely absent; typhlosole absent. Extramural calciferous glands usually absent, rarely with paired glands in X and XI (type-species). Nephridia stomate, exonephric holonephridia with or without bladders; their pores in straight lines; the anterior nephridia sometimes tufted; rarely with two at least caudally stomate nephridia on each side per segment Spermathecae 2-5 pairs, pre-testicular, diverticulate; diverticulum usually single, uniloculate, never multiloculate.

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] [430]

General References

Blakemore, R.J. 2000. Tasmanian earthworms. Published electronically. 575 pp. [196] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

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