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,...

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Other Authors: KINGSTON, TIMMOTHY (hasPrincipalInvestigator), KINGSTON, TIMMOTHY (processor), Queen Victoria Museum (originator), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
biota
FLATWORMS/FLUKES/TAPEWORMS
EARTH SCIENCE
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
EARTHWORMS
SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS)
COLLECTOR
DATE
LOCATION
MACQUARIE ISLAND
NOTES
OLIGOCHAETA
FIELD SURVEYS
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN &gt
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
Southern Ocean
Macquarie Island
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/ecological-taxonomic-survey-macquarie-island/699794
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2233
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Summary: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

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