Genus Centropyxis Stein, 1859

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• Centropyxis Stein, S.F.N. von 1859. Über die ihm aus eigener Untersuchung bekannt gewordenen Süsswasser Rhizopoden. Abhandlungen der Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Prague 5(Folge 10): 41-43 [date often given as 1857].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from eastern Australia and Tasmania.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, moss, soil dweller.

General References

Gracia, M.P. 1980. Thecamoebiens de l'ile de Tasmanie. Journal of Protozoology 27: 87A-88A

Kobayashi, T., Shiel, R.J., Gibbs, P. & Dixon, P.I. 1998. Freshwater zooplankton in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Hydrobiologia 377: 133-145

Powling, I.J. 1980. Limnological features of some Victorian reservoirs. pp. 332-342 in Williams, W.D. (ed). An Ecological Basis for Water Resource Management. Canberra : Australian National University Press.

Seamer, D.G. 1998. Freshwater Protozoa of Tasmania. A New Guide to the Identification of Tasmania's Freshwater Protozoa. Printing Authority of Tasmaina : WRA Unit Report 98/05. Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries 141 pp.

Shiel, R.J. 1986. Zooplankton of the Murray-Darling system. pp. 661-677 in Davies, B.R. & Walker, K.F. (eds). The Ecology of River Systems. Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Dr W. Junk Publishers.

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

Walsh, R.J.G., Shiel, R.J. & Tyler, P.A. 2001. Reconnaissance limnology of Tasmania, VII. Coastal lagoons of Bass Strait islands, with reference to endemic microflora and microfauna. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 152: 489-510

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