Genus Perissogaster Fletcher, 1887

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Regional Maps

• Perissogaster Fletcher, J.J. 1887. Notes on Australian earthworms—Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2(2): 375-402 [383].

  Type species:

   Perissogaster excavata Fletcher, 1887 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal

Diagnosis

Setae 8 per segment. Gizzards 3, in V, VI and VII; extramural calciferous glands absent. Meronephric; with numerous preseptal funnels on each side in each intestinal segment. Combined pores of a pair of tubuloracemose prostates and the vasa deferentia in XVIII. Spermathecae with pores at the anterior margins of their segments.

 

General 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] [967]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		15-Jul-2010	MODIFIED