Genus Kangaridrilus Jamieson, 2000

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Genus Kangaridrilus Jamieson, 2000

Kangaridrilus 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] [843].
Type species:
Perionychella (Perionychella) inconstans Jamieson, 1974 (=Kangaridrilus inconstans (Jamieson, 1974)) by original designation.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- South Australia: S Gulfs

Diagnosis

Setae 8 per segment, the dorsal couple only about 1.5 times the width of the ventral couple. Nephropores in b lines. Clitellum annular. Male pores in XVIII. Eye-like genital markings absent. Female pores paired, shortly anterior to or anteromedian to setae a of XIV. Spermathecal pores 2 pairs or unpaired, in 7/8 and 8/9. Last hearts in XIII, those in X-XIII latero-oesophageal. Gizzard small and globose in V. Calciferous glands absent. Intestinal origin apparently XIX or XX; typhlosole absent, though a rudimentary middorsal ridge may occur. Nephridia stomate avesiculate holonephridia; small tuftlike structures on the body wall, in IV and V may be tufted nephridia. Holandric; seminal vesicles large, racemose, with many large discrete loculi, in IX and XII. Penial setae present. Metagynous; true ovisacs in XIV. Prostates a pair of thick short tortuous tubes. Spermathecae in VIII and IX, with digitiform-clavate (inseminated) diverticulum, discharging beneath the ventral nerve cord, or paired, discharging median to a lines.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	OLIGOCHAETA	29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Robin Wilson
		15-Jul-2010	MODIFIED

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