Genus Healesvillea Jamieson, 2000

Museums

Regional Maps

• Healesvillea 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] [741].

  Type species:

   Woodwardia healesi Michaelsen, 1924 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Diagnosis

First dorsal pore 5/6. Setae 8 per segment; ventrally widely paired, dorsal separate. Nephropores generally in c lines, at the anterior end partly in b and (less commonly?) d lines. Clitellum annular, XIV-XVII. Combined male and prostatic pores a pair on XVIII, on a pair of genital pads; other genital markings absent. Spermathecal pores 2 pairs, in intersegmental furrows 7/8 and 8/9. A large gizzard in VI(?). In each of XIV-XVI, a pair of lateral calciferous glands sharply demarcated from the oesophagus, with longitudinal lamellae; those of XIV very small, simple, transversely oval; those in XV and XVI much larger, transversely elongate bean-shaped. Intestine commencing in XVIII. Holonephric. Holandric; 2 pair of racemose seminal vesicles, in XI and XII. Prostates racemose, bipartite. Penial setae apparently absent. Spermathecae 2 pairs, each with two, multiloculate diverticula.

History of changes