Die Fauna südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905

A hundred-year-old worm?

“…This species is clearly assignable to the genus Spenceriella, Michaelsen (1907), as it falls within the range of the generic definition as emended by Jamieson (1974) (following the discovery by Jamieson, 1972, that neotypic material of the type-species, Spenceriella notabilir (Spencer 1900), had racemose prostates, rather than tubular prostates as originally described by Spencer). The only notable departure from the generic definition is that there are two, rather than three or four, pairs of calciferous glands.…”

Annotated catalogue of the types of Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, with lectotype designations

“…The type locality is given as stated in the original description, with the original orthography; the modern English name and geographic coordinates are provided. Depths were rarely reported in Thiele's original descriptions and were also gathered from Michaelsen and Hartmeyer (1907) for south-western Australian taxa, and from other monographs of the "Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition..." series. One special case is station 81 "Groβe Fischbucht" of the German Deep-sea Expedition, which is located off Baía dos Tigres in Angola.…”

On Schmarda's lost earthworm and some newly found New Zealand species (Oligochaeta: Megadrilacea: Lumbricidae, Acanthodrilidae, Octochaetidae, & Megascolecidae s. stricto)

“…"As an illustration of this uncertainty, mention may be made of my genus Tokea (1905) [1904?]. In 1907 Megascolides.…”