Species Chilodonella uncinata (Ehrenberg, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chilodon uncinata Ehrenberg, C.G. 1838. Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene organismen. Ein blick in das tiefere organische leben der natur. Leipzig, Folio : Voss xviii + 547 pp. 64 pl. [microfilm of text without figures from copy held in Melbourne Public Library].

Generic Combinations

• Chilodonella uncinata (Ehrenberg, 1838). —
  Strand, E. 1928. Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica, I-II. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 92(A, 8): 30-75

Introduction

Size: not recorded

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

Freshwater, marine, soil dweller, symbiotic (host(s): Glossolepis incisis Weber, 1908 [MELANOTAENIIDAE] New Guinea Rainbow Fish (skin); Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) [CENTROPOMIDAE] Barramundi, Giant Perch (gills); Salmo sp. [SALMONIDAE]).

General References

Blatterer, H. & Foissner, W. 1988. Beitrag zur terricolen Ciliatenfauna (Protozoa, Ciliophora) Australiens. Stapfia 17: 1-84

Foissner, W. 1998. An updated compilation of world soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora), with ecological notes, new records, and descriptions of new species. European Journal of Protistology 34: 195-235

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

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