Subgenus Diporochaeta (Vesiculodrilus) Jamieson, 1973

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• Vesiculodrilus Jamieson, B.G.M. 1973. Earthworms (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) from Mount Kosciusko, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 28: 215-252 [224-225].

  Type species:

   Cryptodrilus frenchi Spencer, 1892 (=Diporochaeta (Vesiculodrilus) frenchi (Spencer, 1892)) by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Flinders (FLI) ; NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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) ; Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), 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)

Diagnosis

Setae 8 per setigerous segment throughout the body. A pair of combined pores of vasa deferentia and tubular or tubuloracemose prostates on XVIII. Last hearts in XII or XIII. Gizzard in V or, exceptionally, VI; typhlosole absent. Extramural calciferous glands usually absent, rarely with sessile glands in XV or XIV and XV. Nephridia stomate, exonephric holonephridia with bladders; their pores in straight lines; the anterior nephridia sometimes tufted. Spermathecae 1-5 pairs, pre-testicular, diverticulate; diverticulum single, uniloculate, rarely paired and bifid.

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] [526-527]

General References

Blakemore, R.J. 2000. Tasmanian earthworms. Published electronically. 575 pp. [72] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement accorded Vesiculodrilus full genus status)

Jamieson, B.G.M. 1974. The indigenous earthworms (Megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) of Tasmania. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 26: 201-328 [221] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as subgenus of Perionychella)

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] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement recognised Vesiculodrilus as a subgenus, which arrangement is followed here; also recognised species groups which are not given here)

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