Genus Pseudocryptodrilus Jamieson, 1972

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• Pseudocryptodrilus Jamieson, B.G.M. 1972. A numerical study of the Australian earthworm genera Cryptodrilus Fletcher and Trinephrus Beddard, with a new genus (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 51: 147-175 [172].

  Type species:

   Megascolex diaphanus Spencer, 1900 (=Pseudocryptodrilus diaphanus (Spencer, 1900)) by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Diagnosis

A pair of combined male and prostatic pores on XVIII. Setae 8 per segment. Nephridia avesiculate, 2 to 3 on each side excepting caudally where there is a single pair of stomate holonephridia in each segment. Gizzard in V; typhlosole weak or absent. Prostates tubuloracemose but varying from depressed tubular to lobate.

 

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] [1052]

 

History of changes

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