Species Diporochaeta (Diporochaeta) dilwynnia (Spencer, 1895)

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Species Diporochaeta (Diporochaeta) dilwynnia (Spencer, 1895)

Perichaeta dilwynnia Spencer, W.B. 1895. Preliminary notes on Tasmanian earthworms. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 7: 33-54 [50].
Type data:
Holotype NMV lost (types presumed lost (Jensz & Smith 1969: 104)), Dee Bridge, SW Tasmania [42°20'S 146°25'E].
Secondary source:
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 [104].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

SW and central Tasmania.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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

Australian Region

Australia
- Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller.

General References

Blakemore, R.J. 2000. Tasmanian earthworms. Published electronically. 575 pp. [294] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement in a contemporaneous paper, Blakemore (2000) returned this species to Perionychella)

Blakemore, R.J. 2000. Tasmanian earthworms. Published electronically. 575 pp. [294] (as Perionychella dilwynnia; removed one specimen (W5202) of Jamieson (1974) from this species to Perionychella obliquae)

Blakemore, R.J. 2000. The taxonomic status of the earthworm fauna of Lake Pedder, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 109: 1-36 [15-16] (as Perionychella dilwynnia)

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 [83] (as Diporochaeta dilwynnia)

Jamieson, B.G.M. 1976. The genus Diporochaeta (Oligochaeta Megascolecidae) in Queensland. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 149: 1-57 [4] (as Diporochaeta dilwynnia)

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] [468] (as Diporochaeta (Diporochaeta) dilwynnia)

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 [104] (as Perichaeta dilwynnia)