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Megascolides australis

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA ANNELIDA OLIGOCHAETA HAPLOTAXIDA MEGASCOLECIDAE

Scientific Name: Megascolides australis
Species Authority: McCoy, 1878
Common Name/s:
English – Giant Gippsland Earthworm

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Vulnerable   D2   ver 2.3
Year Published: 1996
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor/s: World Conservation Monitoring Centre
History:
1994 – Vulnerable (Groombridge 1994)
1990 – Vulnerable (IUCN 1990)
1988 – Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1986 – Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1983 – Vulnerable

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
Australia
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Terrestrial

Bibliography [top]

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Citation: World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Megascolides australis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2012.
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