Genus Trichaeta Spencer, 1900

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trichaeta Spencer, W.B. 1900. Further descriptions of Australian earthworms, Part I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 13(1): 29-67 [30-31].

  Type species:

   Trichaeta australis Spencer, 1900 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), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Diagnosis

For Trichaeta australis and T. fielderi: not more than six setae on each side of the segment, arranged in pairs; or exceptionally 7 setae. Metandric. Meronephric, (always?) with large numbers of preseptal funnels per segment caudally. Prostates racemose. Two pairs of spermathecae.

General References

Blakemore, R.J. 2000. Tasmanian earthworms. Published electronically. 575 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Trichaeta suppressed within Anisochaeta)

History of changes