Australian Museum Journal Arenicola from south-eastern Australia
- Shortform:
- Stach, 1944, Rec. Aust. Mus. 21(5): 272–278
- Author(s):
- Stach, L. W.
- Year published:
- 1944
- Title:
- Arenicola from south-eastern Australia
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 5
- Start page:
- 272
- End page:
- 278
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.21.1944.543
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plate xviii
- Date published:
- 22 June 1944
- Cover date:
- 22 June 1944
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 03 September 2009
- Reference number:
- 543
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (129kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1509kb PDF)
Abstract
This note records the occurrence for the first time on the Australian mainland of the widely distributed southern form Arenicola assimilis var. affiinis Ashworth, the nearest locality from which it has been recorded being at Burnie on the north coast of Tasmania (Ashworth, 1912). Ashworth (1916) also describes four specimens of Arenicola loveni from Kangaroo Island and Lacepede Bay (South Australia). The writer and other members of the McCoy Society collected a large series of specimens referable to A. Loveni during that society's expedition to the Sir Joseph Banks Islands in Spencer Gulf (South Australia) in December, 1936 (McCoy Society, 1937, 1939), thus extending the range of this form further west in southern Australia. The south Australian form of this species merits varietal distinction from the typical South African form as described by Ashworth (1910, 1911).