155. Jamieson,
B.G.M. 1997b. Some new
and previously known earthworm species from Cape York Peninsula
(Annelida:
Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42,
233-270.
Ten new species, in five genera,
are described from the Cape YorkPeninsula, Queensland: Diplotrema
attenuata sp. nov.; D. scheltingai sp.
nov.; Neodiplotrema mcdonaldi
sp. nov.; and Terrisswalkerius mcilwraithi
sp. nov., from the McIlwraith
Range; Diplotrema acropetra sp. nov.,
Neodiplotrema altanmoui
sp. nov., N. paripunctata sp. nov., and Kayarmacia
adelphicus
gen. et sp. nov, from Cape Melville National Park;
Terrisswalkerius carbinensis
sp. nov. from Mt Carbine Tableland, and T.
miseriae sp. nov., from Mt Misery.
Kayarmacia
(=Rhododrilus)
queenslandicus
Michaelsen, 1916, is redescribed from the Alice-Mitchell R.
National Park, near the type-locality;
it is clearly the sister-taxon of
K. adelphicus. The phylogenetic
and biogeographic affinities of these
species are briefly discussed.