Lake Pedder earthworm

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Lake Pedder Earthworm
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Oligochaeta
Order: Haplotaxida
Family: Megascolecidae
Genus: Hypolimnus
Blakemore, 2000
Species: H. pedderensis
Binomial name
Hypolimnus pedderensis
(Jamieson, 1974)
Synonyms

"Atlantodrilus pedderensis" (nomen nudum)
Diporochaeta pedderensis (Jamieson, 1974)
Perionychella pedderensis Jamieson, 1974

The Lake Pedder Earthworm (Hypolimnus pedderensis) was an earthworm species in the family Megascolecidae. Its genus Hypolimnus is monotypic.

It was endemic to the Lake Pedder area in Tasmania, Australia, prior to its flooding in 1972 for a hydro-electric power scheme.

It is only known from a specimen collected from a Lake Pedder beach in 1971. A 1996 survey failed to find it and it is presumed extinct.[1]

References

  1. ^ Blakenmore, R.J. 2003. Hypolimnus pedderensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 August 2007.