Ecological and taxonomic survey of terrestrial Oligochaetes of Macquarie Island
Data consists of records of two species of earthworms from 70 sites on Macquarie Island collected and identified by Dr R. Blakemore. The species are:
Family ACANTHODRILIDAE .
Genus MICROSCOLEX ROSS, 1887
Species Microscolex macquariensis (Beddard, 1896)
Family LUMBRICIDAE
Genus DENDRODRILUS Omodeo, 1956
Species Dendrodrilus rubidus (Savigny, 1826) F. subrubicundus Eisen, 1874
The material is deposited in the Queen Victoria Museum.
There are no publications from this project at this date.
Furthermore, two flat worm were collected for the first time on this project.
Collection details: summer 97/98. Lusitania Creek, collected Dr R. Blakemore. Identified L. Winsor.
Species:
1. Arthurdenyus n. sp.
2. New genus new species.
Material of these two species is deposited with Leigh Winsor, School of Tropical Biology, c/- Central Services Office, James University, Townsville, Qld 4810.
An excel spreadsheet of sampling locations is available for download at the provided URL.
The fields in this dataset are:
Date
Collector
Location
Notes