- Title
- The Anatomy of Microchaetus Saxatilis: with some notes on allied species
- Creator
- Louw, M A
- Subject
- Uncatalogued
- Date
- 1941
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193666
- Identifier
- vital:45382
- Description
- Earthworms of the genus Microchaetus, Rapp.1849, are abundant in the Grahams town district. Microohaetus saxatilis, Rosa, 1S98,has been chosen as a subject for investigation as it is a valuable type for laboratory work, and it showed interesting characters which required detailed study. Members of the genus Micro chaet us are available in many regions of South Africa and are useful for work in South African schools and Universities. Micro chaetus saxatills is an 01igochaete worm belonging to the family Glossoseolecidae. These wonns were originally placed in the Lumbricina by Grube, (1850 p.345), but Rosa in 1887 (p.7) formed a separate family naming it the Geoscolecidae. He divided it into two sub-families :- (1) Geoscolecinae, and (B) Microchaetinae. Beddard was studying the classification of this family at the same time as Rosa. He spelt the name slightly differently, calling the family the Geoscolicidae, but he arrived independently at the same division into subfamilies (1888, pp. £43-278), although he suggests that perhaps an additional sub-family - the Homo gas. tridae - should be formed. Homo gas ter is undoubtedly an aberrant type, and it seems strange that Rosa who studied this genus should not have placed it in a separate sub-family.
- Description
- Thesis (MSc) -- Faculty of Science, Zoology, 1941
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (125 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University College, Faculty of Science, Zoology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Louw, M A
- Rights
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Rights
- Open Access
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