Subspecies Arcuospathidium muscorum rhopaloplites Foissner & Xu, 2006

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arcuospathidium muscorum rhopaloplites Foissner, W. & Xu, K. 2006. Monograph of the Spathidiida (Ciliophora, Haptoria): Vol. 1. Protospathidiidae, Arcuospathidiidae, Apterospathulidae. Monographiae Biologicae 81: 1-ix, 1-485.

Introduction

Size: 80-130 x 25-40 µm

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA: Channel Country (CHC), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller.

General References

Aescht, E. 2008. Annotated catalogue of "type material" of ciliates (Ciliophora) and some further protists at the Upper Austrian Museum in Linz, including a guideline for "typification" of species. pp. 125-234 in Aescht, E. & Berger, H. (eds). The Wilhelm Foissner Festschrift. Denisia 23

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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