
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abbott, I 
T1  - Distribution of the native earthworm fauna of Australia - a continent-wide perspective
JF  - Soil Research
JO  - Soil Res.
Y1  - 1994
VL  - 32
IS  - 1
SP  - 117
EP  - 126
KW  - Oligochaeta;Megascolecidae;Native Earthworms;Australia;Geographical Distribution;
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/SR9940117 
N2  - 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. 
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