Genus Woodwardiella Stephenson, 1925

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• Woodwardiella Stephenson, J. 1925. Oligochaeta from various regions, including those collected by the Mount Everest Expedition 1924. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1925: 879-907 [888].

  Type species:

   Woodwardia callichaeta Michaelsen, 1907 (=Woodwardiella callichaeta (Michaelsen, 1907)) by original designation.
• ?Woodwardia Stephenson, J. 1923. The Fauna of British India. Oligochaeta. London : Taylor & Francis. [183-185].

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Diagnosis

Combined male and prostatic pores a pair on XVIII. Prostates racemose. Setae 8 per segment; cd ca = or slightly > bc. Nephridia exonephric, stomate, avesiculate holonephridia forming a single series on each side in c lines but (always ?) replaced in anterior segments by tufts discharging into the buccal cavity or exonephrically in d lines. Calciferous glands absent; typhlosole weakly developed or absent. Spermathecae 2 pairs, diverticulum simple, not multiloculate.

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