Species Colpoda steinii Maupas, 1883

Museums

Regional Maps

• Colpoda steinii Maupas, E. 1883. Contribution à l'étude morphologique et anatomique des Infusoires Ciliés. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 427-664.

Introduction

Size: 20-40 x 15-30 µm

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Among bark, freshwater, moss, soil dweller, symbiotic (host(s): Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 [HOMINIDAE] Human (eye)).

Extra Ecological Information

Opportunistic symbiont

Associated Fauna References

Larsen, H.F. 1987. Eine Ciliatencyste aus dem menschlichen Auge. Mikrokosmos 76: 6-9 (Homo sapiens)

General References

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

Esteban, G.F., Finlay, B.J., Olmo, J.L. & Tyler, P.A. 2000. Ciliated protozoa from a volcanic crater-lake in Victoria, Australia. Journal of Natural History 34: 159-189

Finlay, B.J., Esteban, G.F., Olmo, J.L. & Tyler, P.A. 1999. Global distribution of free-living microbial species. Ecography 22: 138-144

Foissner, W. 1993. Colpodea (Ciliophora). In, Matthes, D. (ed). Protozoenfauna. Stuttgart : Gustav Fischer Verlag Vol. 4(1).

Foissner, W. 1997. Soil ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from evergreen rain forests of Australia, South America and Costa Rica; diversity and description of new species. Biology and Fertility of Soils 25: 317-339

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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