Species Octolasion cyaneum (Savigny in Cuvier, 1826)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Enterion cyaneum Savigny, J.C. 1826. Analyse d'un mémoire sur les lombrics par Cuvier. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France 5: 176-184 [181] [part.].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMHB.
• Octolasion stagnalis Hoffmeister, W. 1845. Übersicht aller bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer. Als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie. Braunschweig : Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn pp. 43. [35].
• Lumbricus alyattes Kinberg, J.G. 1867. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 23(4): 97-103 [99].
• Octolasion studiosa Michaelsen, W. 1890. Die Lumbriciden Mecklenburg's. Archiv des Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg 44: 48-54 [50].
• Octolasion kempi Stephenson, J. 1922. Some earthworms from Kashmir, Bombay and other parts of India. Records of the Indian Museum 24: 427-444 [441].
• Octolasion cyaneum armoricum Bouché, M.B. 1972. Lombriciens de France, écologie et systématique. Articles de Zoologie-Écologie animale (numéro hors-série). Institut national de la Recherche agronomique, Paris. pp. 621 [260] [as var.].
• Dendrobaena jeanneli Pop, V.V. 1948. Lumbricids of Romania [Lumbricidele din România]. Analele Academiei Republicii Populare Române Series A 1(9): 1-124, pl 1, 2 [in Romanian].
• Lumbricus stagnalis Hoffmeister, W. 1845. Übersicht aller bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer. Als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie. Braunschweig : Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn pp. 43. [35] (part valid as Octolasion lacteum lacteum (Örley, 1881)) [(part.?)].
• Allolobophora studiosa Michaelsen, W. 1890. Die Lumbriciden Mecklenburg's. Archiv des Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg 44: 48-54 [50].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Blakemore, R. 2007. An updated list of valid, invalid and synonymous names of Criodriloidea (Criodrilidae) and Lumbricoidea (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Sparganophilidae, Ailoscolecidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae, and Lutodrilidae). pp. 1-77 [54]

 

Generic Combinations

• Allolobophora cyaneum (Savigny in Cuvier, 1826). —
  Blakemore, R.J. 1999. Diversity of exotic earthworms in Australia - a status report. pp. 182-187 in Ponder, W.F. & Lunney, D. (eds). The Other 99%. The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates. Mosman (NSW) : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 454 pp.
  Sims, R.W. & Gerard, B.M. 1999. Earthworms. Notes for the identification of British species. In, Synopsis of the British Fauna (New Series) No. 31. Shrewsbury : The Linnean Society of London and the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association, Field Studies Council. [112]
  Blakemore, R.J, Ito, M.T. & Kaneko, N. 2006. Alien earthworms in the Asia/Pacific region with a checklist of species and the first records of Eukerria saltensis (Oligochaeta: Ocnerodrilidae) and Eiseniella tetraedra (Lumbricidae) from Japan, and Pontoscolex corethrurus (Glossoscolecidae) from Okinawa. 173-181 pp. in Koike, F., Clout, M.N., Kawamichi, M., De Poorter, M. & Iwatsuki, K. Assessment and Control of Biological Invasion Risks. Kyoto, Japan and Gland, Switzerland : Shoukadoh Book Sellers and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) 216 pp. [ISBN: 978-4-87974-604-7] [177]
• Octolasion cyaneum (Savigny in Cuvier, 1826). —
  Michaelsen, W. 1900. Oligochaeta. Das Tierreich 10: 1-565 [506]
  Lee, K.E. 1959. The earthworm fauna of New Zealand. Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 130: 1-486 [368]
  Gerard, B.M. 1964. Lumbricidae (Annelida) with keys and descriptions. Synposes of the British Fauna. London : The Linnean Society of London Vol. 6 2, 58 pp. [49]
  Bouché, M.B. 1972. Lombriciens de France, écologie et systématique. Articles de Zoologie-Écologie animale (numéro hors-série). Institut national de la Recherche agronomique, Paris. pp. 621 [258]
  Edwards, C.A. & Lofty, J.R. 1972. Biology of Earthworms. London : Chapman and Hill pp. 283. [214]
  Gates, G.E. 1972. Burmese earthworms. An introduction to the systematics and biology of megadrile oligochaetes with special reference to South-east Asia. Transactions of the Australian Entomological Society 62(7): 1-326 [123]
  Gates, G.E. 1972. Contributions to North American earthworms No. 3. Towards a revision of the earthworm family Lumbricidae, IV. The trapezoides species group. Bulletin of the Tall Timbers Research Station 12: 1-146 [31]
  Reynolds, J.W. 1977. The Earthworms (Lumbricidae and Sparganophilidae) of Ontario. Life Sciences Miscellaneous Publications. Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario. pp. 141 [105, fig. 36]
  Easton, E.G. 1983. A guide to the valid names of Lumbricidae (Oligochaeta). pp. 475-485 in Satchell, J.E. (ed.). Earthworm Ecology from Darwin to Vermiculture. London : Chapman & Hall. [483]
  Sims R.W. & Gerard B.M. 1985. Earthworms. Keys and notes to the identification and study of species. In: Kermack, D.M. & Barnes, R.S.K. (eds) Synopsis of the British fauna (New Series) Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. 31 171 pp. [112, fig. 40]
  Blakemore, R.J. 2002. Cosmopolitan Earthworms — an Eco-Taxonomic Guide to the Peregrine Species of the World. Canberra : VermEcology, Kippax 506 pp. [342, fig. 4.19, 4.20] (date should be 2002)
  Fragoso, C. & Brown, G.G. 2007. Ecologia y taxonomia de las lombrices de tierra em Latinoamérica. El primer Encuentro Latino-Americano de Ecologia y Taxonomia de Oligochaeta (ELAETAO 1). pp. 33-75 in Brown, G.G. & Fragoso, C. (eds). Minhocas na América Latina: biodiversidade e ecologia. Londrina, Paraná, Brazil : Embrapa Soja pp. 33-75. [71]
• Lumbricus cyaneum (Savigny in Cuvier, 1826). —
  Dugès, A. 1837. Nouvelles observations sur le zoologie et l'anatomie des annélides abranches sétigères, I. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 2 8: 15-35 [17]
  Vaillant, L.L. 1889. Histoire naturelle des Annélés marins et d'eau douce. in De Quatrefages, A. & Vaillant, L.L. (eds) Lombriciniens, Hirudiniens, Bdellomorphes, Térétulariens et Planariens. Librarire Encyclopédique de Roret, Nates : Paris Vol. 3, Section 2. 340 pp. [124]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Allolobophora (Octolasion) cyanea (Savigny in Cuvier, 1826) [part.; part valid as Aporrectodea turgida (Eisen, 1873)]. —
  Rosa, D. 1893. Revisione dei Lumbricidi. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino Serie 2 43: 399-476 [424]
• Lumbricus terrestres [part]. —
  Müller, O.F. 1774. Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Pars altera. Helminthica. Havniae et Lipsiae [Havana & Leipzig] : Heineck and Faber Vol. 1(2) pp. 80. [24]
• Allolobophora cyanea stagnalis (Hoffmeister, 1845). —
  Rosa, D. 1893. Revisione dei Lumbricidi. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino Serie 2 43: 399-476 [455]
• Lumbricus alyattes Kinberg, 1867. —
  Vaillant, L.L. 1889. Histoire naturelle des Annélés marins et d'eau douce. in De Quatrefages, A. & Vaillant, L.L. (eds) Lombriciniens, Hirudiniens, Bdellomorphes, Térétulariens et Planariens. Librarire Encyclopédique de Roret, Nates : Paris Vol. 3, Section 2. 340 pp. [118]
• Allolobophora (Octolasion) cyanea studiosa (Michaelsen, W., 1890). —
  Ribaucourt, E. De 1896. Étude sur la faune lombricide de la Suisse. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4: 1-110 [95]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also from: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Brazil, North America, Iceland, Azores, Europe, Asia and New Zealand

Introduced.

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Frequently expelled from burrows after heavy rain and found on ground surface, even during daylight (Sims & Gerard, 1999).

 

Diagnosis

"The presence of yellow granules in the coelom of the last few segments of the body is a characteristic feature" (Sims & Gerard, 1999: 114)

 

Common Name References

Sims, R.W. & Gerard, B.M. 1999. Earthworms. Notes for the identification of British species. In, Synopsis of the British Fauna (New Series) No. 31. Shrewsbury : The Linnean Society of London and the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association, Field Studies Council. [114] (Blue-grey Worm, Steel-blue Worm)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	OLIGOCHAETA	06-Jul-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Robin Wilson
17-Oct-2023	OLIGOCHAETA	07-Jul-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Robin Wilson
	OLIGOCHAETA	13-May-2011	ADDED	Dr Robin Wilson