Genus Arcella Ehrenberg, 1832

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• Arcella Ehrenberg, C.G. 1832. Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere, nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organsichen Systeme. Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1831: 1-154 pls 1-4 [40].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from eastern Australia and Tasmania.
Size: not recorded.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, soil dweller.

General References

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

Anon. 1843. 11. Mai Gesammtsitzung der Akademie. Bericht uber die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Koniglichen Preufs. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin Gesammsitzung der Akademie 1843: 137-143

Ingram, B.A., Hawking, J.H. & Shiel, R.J. 1997. Aquatic life in freshwater ponds. A guide to the identification and ecology of life in aquaculture ponds and farm dams in South Eastern Australia. Identification Guide No. 9. Albury : Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology 105 pp.

Powling, I.J. 1980. Limnological features of some Victorian reservoirs. pp. 332-342 in Williams, W.D. (ed). An Ecological Basis for Water Resource Management. Canberra : Australian National University Press.

Shiel, R.J. 1986. Zooplankton of the Murray-Darling system. pp. 661-677 in Davies, B.R. & Walker, K.F. (eds). The Ecology of River Systems. Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Dr W. Junk Publishers.

Shiel., R.J. & Griggs, J.A. 1998. Aquatic microfauna from Lake Catani and environs, Mount Buffalo National Park. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 115: 226-230 pl. 4D

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

Walsh, R.J.G., Shiel, R.J. & Tyler, P.A. 2001. Reconnaissance limnology of Tasmania, VII. Coastal lagoons of Bass Strait islands, with reference to endemic microflora and microfauna. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 152: 489-510

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