Species Acineta tuberosa (Pallas, 1766)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Brachionus tuberosa Pallas, P.S. 1766. Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succinctas descriptiones cum selectis auctorum synonymis. Hagae-comitum : P. van Cleef 451 pp.

Generic Combinations

• Acineta tuberosa (Pallas, 1766). —
  Ehrenberg, E.C. 1833. Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. Abhandlungen der Akadamie der Wissenschaften Berlin 1831: 1-154, Tafeln I-IV

Introduction

Size: not recorded. Free-living in fresh water.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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, marine, symbiotic (host(s): Cherax destructor (Clark, 1936) [PARASTACIDAE] Inland Yabbie (gills, pleopods); Cherax tenuimanus (Smith, 1912) [PARASTACIDAE] Marron (gills, pleopods)).

Associated Fauna References

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. (Cherax destructor; Cherax tenuimanus)

General References

Esteban, G.F., Finlay, B.J., Olmo, J.L. & Tyler, P.A. 2000. Ciliated protozoa from a volcanic crater-lake in Victoria, Australia. Journal of Natural History 34: 159-189

Finlay, B.J., Esteban, G.F., Olmo, J.L. & Tyler, P.A. 1999. Global distribution of free-living microbial species. Ecography 22: 138-144

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