
%0 Journal Article
%A Abbott, I 
%T Distribution of the native earthworm fauna of Australia - a continent-wide perspective
%J Soil Research
%D 1994/02/01
%V 32
%N 1
%P 117-126
%K Oligochaeta;Megascolecidae;Native Earthworms;Australia;Geographical Distribution;
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/SR9940117
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/SR9940117 
%X Based on nearly 2000 available records, the broadscale geographical distribution of the native earthworm fauna of Australia was mapped. Native earthworms were recorded from south-eastern, eastern and northern Australia within 400 km of the coast. Isolated faunas were present in Tasmania and south-west Western Australia, and apparently isolated faunas occurred in the Adelaide area/Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia and the ranges of central Australia. All but 30 locality records occurred where annual rainfall averaged or exceeded 400 mm; 16 of these records were instances of moisture-gaining sites (moist caves, waterholes, banks of large rivers, edge of granite domes). A collecting strategy to both fill in gaps in the distribution map and discover additional anomalous occurrences (with respect to the 400 mm isohyet) is outlined. 
