Species Arcella arenaria Greef, 1866

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• Arcella arenaria Greeff, R. 1866. Über einige in der Erde lebende Amöben und andewre Rhizopoden. Archiv für Mikroskopische Anatomie 2: 299-331.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, moss, soil dweller.

General References

Decloitre, L. 1964. Thecamobiens de la XIIe Expedition Antarctique Française. Expeditions, Polaires Françaises (Missions Paul-Emile Victor) Vol. No. 259 47 pp.

Meisterfield, R. & Tan, L-W. 1998. First records of testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) from Mount Buffalo National Park, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 115: 231-238

Robinson, B.S., Bamforth, S.S. & Dobson, P.J. 2002. Density and diversity of protozoa in some arid Australian soils. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 49: 449-453

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