Species Rhyacodrilus coccineus (Vejdovsky, 1875)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tubifex coccineus Vejdovsky, F. 1876. Beitrage zur Oligochaetenfauna Bohmens. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Prague 1874: 1-193 [193].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH 6948, not known.
• Branchiura pleurotheca Benham, W.B. 1907. On the Oligochaeta from the Blue Lake, Mount Kosciusko. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 251-264 [256].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM W5612-5614 several on slides, 2 sectioned, Blue Lake, Kosciuszko, NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Benham, W.B. 1907. On the Oligochaeta from the Blue Lake, Mount Kosciusko. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 251-264 [256].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brinkhurst, R.O. 1971. Family Tubificidae. pp. 444-625 in Brinkhurst, R.O. & Jamieson, B.G.M. (eds). Aquatic Oligochaeta of the World. Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd 860 pp. [548]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Detritivore, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.

 

History of changes

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