Species Blepharisma americanum Suzuki, 1954

Museums

Regional Maps

• Blepharisma undulans americanus Suzuki, S. 1954. Taxonomic studies on Blepharisma undulans Stein with special reference to the macronuclear variation. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University 15: 204–220 [209].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Blepharisma americanum Suzuki, 1954. —
  Hirshfield, H.I., Isquith, I.R. & Bhandary, A.V. 1965. A proposed organisation of the genus Blepharisma Perty and description of four new species. Journal of Protozoology 12: 136-144 (raised to full species status)

Introduction

Size: 155-200 x 64-112 µm

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

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. & O'Donoghue, P.J. 1990. Morphology and infraciliature of some freshwater ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from Western and South Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 661-696

History of changes