Genus Notoscolex Fletcher, 1886

Museums

Regional Maps

• Notoscolex Fletcher, J.J. 1886. Notes on Australian Earthworms—Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(2): 523-574 [546].

  Type species:

   Notoscolex camdenensis Fletcher, 1886 by original designation.
• Oreoscolex Jamieson, B.G.M. 1973. Earthworms (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) from Mount Kosciusko, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 28: 215-252 [238].
• Pseudonotoscolex Jamieson, B.G.M. 1971. A review of the megascolecoid earthworm genera (Oligochaeta) of Australia. Part III — The subfamily Megascolecinae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 69-102 [78].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), 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) ; Tas, Vic: Flinders (FLI) ; Vic: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Gascoyne (GAS)

Diagnosis

Setae 8 per segment. Combined male and prostatic porophores a pair on XVIII. A single gizzard in V and /or VI. Meronephric, with exonephric stomate nephridium median to exonephric astomate micromeronephridia caudally (the notoscolecin condition). Prostates racemose, exceptionally tubuloracemose.

Diagnosis References

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] [858] (diagnosis emended)

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