Genus Simsia Jamieson, 1972

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• Simsia Jamieson, B.G.M. 1972. The Australian earthworm genus Spenceriella and description of two new genera (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 33: 73-88 [75].

  Type species:

   Notoscolex tuberculatus Fletcher, 1888 (=Simsia tuberculatus (Fletcher, 1888)) by original designation.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Diagnosis

Setae 8 per segment. Nephridia stomate avesiculate holonephridia except in a few anterior segments which have tufted nephridia with (always?) composite ducts. Nephropores of holonephridia in a single series on each side. Unpaired annular (calciferous?) dilatations of the oesophagus in XV and XVI, XVII. Dorsal intestinal typhlosole present. Spermathecae two pairs, each with a small sessile internally multiloculate diverticulum.

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