Genus Hickmaniella Jamieson, 1974

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• Hickmaniella Jamieson, B.G.M. 1974. The indigenous earthworms (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) of Tasmania. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 26: 201-328 [300].

  Type species:

   Hickmaniella opisthogaster Jamieson, 1974 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Diagnosis

Perichaetin; setae numerous per segment. Combined male and prostatic pores a pair on XVIII. Calciferous glands, typhlosole and intestinal caeca absent An oesophageal gizzard in V and an intestinal gizzard in XIX-XX, XXI?. Nephridia few exonephric avesiculate meronephridia per segment; the medium nephridium with preseptal funnel. Prostates tubuloracemose. Penial setae present. Spermathecae 1 or 2 pairs.

Diagnosis References

Blakemore, R.J. & Kingston, T.J. 1997. Opisthogastric earthworms (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) and allied forms in north-western Tasmania. Journal of Natural History 31(11): 1683-1708 [1690-1693] (definition of Hickmaniella of Jamieson (1974) was emended to accommodate bithecate species, notably H. gogi)

General References

Blakemore, R.J. & Kingston, T.J. 1997. Opisthogastric earthworms (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) and allied forms in north-western Tasmania. Journal of Natural History 31(11): 1683-1708 [1684]

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] [834]

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