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Giant Gippsland EarthwormEducational resources on Giant Gippsland EarthwormGiant Gippsland Earthworm or Megascolides australis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to D2. IUCN Profile of the Giant Gippsland Earthworm land planarians - Bipalium kewense Moseley and Dolichoplana striata ... ...common name: land planarians scientific name: Bipalium kewense Moseley and Dolichoplana striata Moseley (Tricladida: Terricola) Introduction - Distribution - Description and entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/land_planarians.HTM Invertebrates: The Silent Majority - National Zoo| FONZ The body of the Giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis) is composed of 500 to 600 segments, and individuals can grow up to ten feet in length. nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates/Facts/default.cfm Earthworm FAQ - All the answers to your wormy questions The largest earthworm in the world is the giant Gippsland earthworm from Australia. Although it is only 2 cm (<1 inch) wide it can be 3 meters (9 feet) long! www.nd.edu/~strmeco/david/ddig/Worm_FAQ.doc Michael McCarthy's Curriculum Vitae A preliminary population viability analysis of the giant Gippsland earthworm. Unpublished report to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Victoria. www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~mccarthy/cv.html Biology Project: Earthworms ...(Giant Gippsland Earthworm) Charles Darwin estimated that arable land contains up to 53,000 worms per acre. More recent research estimates that poor soil may support faculty.pnc.edu/pwilkin/sako.doc Diversity of soil fauna and ecosystem function Except for a few spectacular species like the 3m-long giant "gippsland" earthworm Megascolides australis of Southern Australia, soil fauna species do not appear on lists of endangered www.colby.edu/biology/BI131/Lab/Lavelle%201996.pdf Body size range Eutyphoeus gammiei (Beddard, 1888) in India may reach a size of 405 mm. Family Megascolecidae: Megascolides australis McCoy, 1878, the “The Giant Gippsland Earthworm� from iubio.bio.indiana.edu:7131/bionet/mm/annelida/2005-April/002375.html Martin Luther King Jr. Displays and educational material on the Giant Gippsland earthworm, which can grow up to 3 metres in length, and other natural history of Gippsland are also featured. sthweb.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Bass%2C_Victoria&Itemid=357 Boston University School of Theology Archives Division of Gippsland; Gippsland massacres; White woman of Gippsland; Giant Gippsland earthworm ... The Andersons of Westernport "Horton and Morris" ^ "McMillan, Angus (1810-1865 sthweb.bu.edu/archives/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Gippsland George L. Fox They range in length from less than 0.5 millimetres (0.020 in) up to 2 to 3 metres (6.6 to 9.8 ft), in the case of species such as the giant Gippsland earthworm. sthweb.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Oligochaeta&Itemid=352
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