Species Arcuospathidium multinucleatum Foissner, 1999

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• Arcuospathidium multinucleatum Foissner, W. 1999. Notes on the soil ciliate biota (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from the Shimba Hills in Kenya (Africa): diversity and description of three new genera and ten new species. Biodiversity and Conservation 8: 319-389 [330].

Introduction

Size: 100-200 x 15-40 µm

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, soil dweller.

General References

Foissner, W. 1999. Notes on the soil ciliate biota (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from the Shimba Hills in Kenya (Africa): diversity and description of three new genera and ten new species. Biodiversity and Conservation 8: 319-389

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

Foissner, W. & Xu, K. 2005. Monograph of the Spathidiida (Ciliophora, Haptoria). Volume I: Protospathidiidae, Arcuospathidiidae, Apertospathulidae. Dumont, H.J. (ed.) Monographiae Biologicae. Vol. 81: Dordrecht: Springer. 485 pp.

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