Species Fletcherodrilus unicus (Fletcher, 1889)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cryptodrilus (?) unicus Fletcher, J.J. 1889. Notes on Australian earthworms—Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(2): 1521-1558 [1540-1541].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, (whereabouts unknown), Narrabri, New South Wales [30°20'S 149°47'E]; (whereabouts unknown), Coonabarabran [31°16'S 149°17'E].
• Cryptodrilus purpureus Michaelsen, W. 1889. Oligochaeten des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. I. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 6: 3-17 [3-5].
• Plutellus affinis Stephenson, J. 1933. Oligochaeta from Australia, North Carolina, and other parts of the world. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1932(4): 899-941 [published 1933] [904].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Michaelsen, W. 1889. Oligochaeten des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. I. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 6: 3-17 [3-5] (Cryptodrilus purpureus)
• Stephenson, J. 1933. Oligochaeta from Australia, North Carolina, and other parts of the world. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1932(4): 899-941 [published 1933] [904-907] (Plutellus affinis)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in NSW and QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland

General References

Fletcher, J.J. 1890. Notes on Australian earthworms—Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(2): 987-1019 [991-992] (as Cryptodrilus (?) unicus, pp. 991–992 and as Cryptodrilus purpureus, pp. 990–991)

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] [604] (as Fletcherodrilus unicus)

Michaelsen, W. 1900. Das Tierreich, Vermes, Lief. 10, Oligochaeta. Berlin : Friedländer und Sohn. [178] (as Fletcherodrilus unicus typicus)

Raff, J.W. 1910. Contributions to our knowledge of Australian earthworms. The Alimentary Canal. Part I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 22: 244-254 [251-252] (as Cryptodrilus (?) unicus)

 

History of changes

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