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Subspecies Arcella vulgaris vulgaris Ehrenberg, 1830

Introduction

Size: 72-145 x 100-145 x 46-73 µm

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, moss, soil dweller.

 

General References

Anon. 1886. Australian fresh-water Rhizopoda. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, London 6: 815

Anon. 1990. Biology, the Common Threads. Part 1. Canberra : Australian Academy of Science 33 pp.

Gillies, C.D. 1915. A list of the recorded freshwater protozoa of Queensland, with a number of new records. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 27: 100-102

Gillies, C.D. 1918. On the seasonal distribution of some Queensland species of Arcella Ehrenberg. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 43: 237-246

Ogden, C.G. & Hedley, R.H. 1980. An Atlas of Freshwater Testate Amoebae. British Museum (Natural History), Oxford University Press 222 pp.

Playfair, G.I. 1914. Contributions to a knowledge of the biology of the Richmond River. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 93-151 7 pls

Playfair, G.I. 1918. Rhizopods of Sydney and Lismore. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42: 633-675 + 8 pls

Richters, F. 1908. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Moosfauna Australiens und der Inseln des Pazifischen Ozeans. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 26: 196-213

Schewiakoff, W. 1893. Uber die geographische Verbreitung der Susswasser-Protozoen. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 41: 1-201 + 5 pls

Searle, J. 1918. Excursion to Heidelberg. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 34: 132-133

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

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. 1923. The aquatic protozoa of the Melbourne district. Part I. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 40: 65-74

Whitelegge, T. 1886. List of the freshwater Rhizopoda of N.S. Wales. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(2): 497-506

Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 163-323

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
26-Jul-2012 26-Jul-2012 MODIFIED
19-Oct-2010 ADDED