Genus Vaginicola Lamarck, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vaginicola Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : Verdière Vol. 3 586 pp.

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from southeastern Australia and Tasmania.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN) ; NSW, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, symbiotic (host(s): Cherax destructor (Clark, 1936) [PARASTACIDAE] Inland Yabbie (gills, pleopods); Cherax tenuimanus (Smith, 1912) [PARASTACIDAE] Marron (gills, pleopods); Macrobrachium sp. [PALAEMONIDAE]).

General References

Andrews, E.A. 1950. Folliculinids in Australia. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 69: 413-421

O'Donoghue, P.J., Beveridge, I. & Phillips, P.H. 1990. Parasites and ectocommensals of yabbies and marron in South Australia. Adelaide : S.A. Department of Fisheries. (ecology)

Patterson, D.J. & Burford, M.A. 2001. A Guide to the Protozoa of Marine Aquaculture Ponds. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 54 pp.

Paynter, J.L. 1986. The disease status of freshwater prawns and crayfish. pp. 99-104, 112-113, 151-152 in Freshwater Aquaculture in Australia. Rural Press Queensland: Brisbane. (ecology)

Seamer, D.G. 1998. Freshwater Protozoa of Tasmania. A New Guide to the Identification of Tasmania's Freshwater Protozoa. Printing Authority of Tasmaina : WRA Unit Report 98/05. Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries 141 pp.

Shephard, J., Searle, J. & Stickland, J. 1918. One year's collecting micro-fauna, Botanic Gardens Lake, Melbourne. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 35: 79-84

Sorokin, Y.I. & Sorokin, P.Y. 2009. Analysis of plankton in the southern Great Barrier Reef: abundance and roles in throphodynamics. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89: 235-241

Stickland, J., Wilcox, J. & Daley, C. 1919. Excursion to Richmond Quarries. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 36: 4

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