Subspecies Cyrtohymena candens candens (Kahl, 1932)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Steinia candens Kahl, A. 1932. Urtiere oder Protozoa. I. Wimpertiere oder Ciliata (Infusoria). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile 25: 399-650.

Generic Combinations

• Cyrtohymena candens (Kahl, 1932). —
  Foissner, W. 1989. Morphologie und Infraciliatur einiger neuer und wenig bekannter terrestrischer und limnischer Ciliaten (Protozoa, Ciliophora). Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 196: 173–247

Introduction

Size: 150-250 x 60-80 µm

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller.

General References

Berger, H. 1999. Monograph of the Oxytrichidae (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia). Dordrecht : Monographiae Biologicae, Kluwer Academic Publishers Vol. 78 1080 pp.

Blatterer, H. & Foissner, W. 1988. Beitrag zur terricolen Ciliatenfauna (Protozoa, Ciliophora) Australiens. Stapfia 17: 1-84

Foissner, W. 1997. Soil ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from evergreen rain forests of Australia, South America and Costa Rica; diversity and description of new species. Biology and Fertility of Soils 25: 317-339

Foissner, W. 1998. An updated compilation of world soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora), with ecological notes, new records, and descriptions of new species. European Journal of Protistology 34: 195-235

Foissner, W., Agatha, S. & Berger, H. 2002. Soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Namibia (Southwest Africa), with emphasis on two contrasting environments, the Etosha Region and the Namib Desert. Denisia 5: 1-1459

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