Pencil & watercolour illustration - Giant Gippsland Earthworm, Megascolides australis, Arthur Bartholomew, 1873, Illustration of a Giant Gippsland Earthworm, Megascolides australis, by Arthur Bartholomew, 1873, for Plate 7 in The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria by Frederick McCoy. In the original description of the giant earthworm from South Gippsland, McCoy made the common error of assuming that the conical burrows of land crayfish were the surface casts of this earthworm, however, the Giant Gippsland
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