Genus Fletcherodrilus Michaelsen, 1891

Museums

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• Fletcherodrilus Michaelsen, W. 1891. Oligochaeten des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. IV. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 8: 1-42 [29-33].

  Type species:

   Cryptodrilus unicus Fletcher, 1889 by original designation (Jamieson (2000) has '?' against unicus).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Setae 8 to numerous in setigerous segments A single midventral combined male and prostatic pore (though, menurus only?) evaginable as a pair of pores). Calciferous glands 2 or 3 pairs, in XIII and XIV, or XIII-XV; intestinal origin in XVIII. Thickly tubular (tubuloracemose?) prostates; junction of vasa deferentia with the prostate ducts well ectal of the glands. Spermathecae unpaired, each with irregularly ovoid ampulla and two digitiform diverticula at the body wall.

General References

Dyne, G.R. & Wallace, C.C. 1994. Biodiversity and conservation of the earthworm fauna of the wet tropics of Queensland's World Heritage area. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 36(1): 59-66 (recognised five species, four of them undescribed; possibly play a significant role in decomposition of fallen timber in tropical rainforests)

Michaelsen, W. 1928. Oligochaeta. pp. 1-118 in Kukenthal, W. & Krumbach, T. (eds). Handbuch der Zoologie. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. [159]

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