Genus Bursaria Müller, 1773

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• Bursaria Müller, O.F. 1773. Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilum, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinum, succincta historia. Prefatio 14 pp., Auctores 5 pp., Vermes 11 pp., Infusoria. Havniae & Lipsiae Vol. 1(1) pp. 1-135.

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from south-eastern Australia, including Murray-Darling Region; size not recorded.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

General References

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

Gibbons, S. 1874. Air and water poisoning in Melbourne. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 10: 180-202

Ingram, B.A., Hawking, J.H. & Shiel, R.J. 1997. Aquatic life in freshwater ponds. A guide to the identification and ecology of life in aquaculture ponds and farm dams in South Eastern Australia. Identification Guide No. 9. Albury : Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology 105 pp.

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