Genus Cothurnia Ehrenberg, 1831

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• Cothurnia Ehrenberg, C.G. 1831. Symbolae Physicae, seu Icones et descriptiones Corporum Naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum, quae ex itineribus per Libyam, Aegyptum, Nubiam, Dongalam, Syriam, Arabiam et Habessiniam ... studio annis 1820-25 redirerunt. Pars Zoologica. v.4. Animalis Evertebrata exclusis Insectis. Berlin.

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from South Australia and Queensland.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Symbiotic (host(s): Cherax tenuimanus (Smith, 1912) [PARASTACIDAE] Marron (gill, pleopods); Penaeus japonicus Bate, 1888 [PENEIDAE] Karuma Prawn (gills); Penaeus sp. [PENEIDAE]; Cherax destructor (Clark, 1936) [PARASTACIDAE] Inland Yabbie (gills, pleopods); Macrobrachium sp. [PALAEMONIDAE]).

Associated Fauna References

Hudson, D.A. & Lester, R.J.G. 1992. Relationships between water quality parameters and ectocommensal ciliates on prawns (Penaeus japonicus Bate) in aquaculture. Aquaculture 105: 269-280 (Penaeus japonicus)

General References

Andrews, E.A. 1950. Folliculinids in Australia. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 69: 413-421

Cannon, L.R.G. & Sewell, K.B. 1994. Symbionts and biodiversity. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 36: 33-40 (ecology)

Lester, R.J.G. & Paynter, J.L. 1990. Diseases of cultured prawns in Australia. pp. 97-101 in Advances in Tropical Aquaculture, Actes de Colloque. Aquacop IFREMER: Tahiti. (ecology)

O'Donoghue, P.J., Beveridge, I. & Phillips, P.H. 1990. Parasites and ectocommensals of yabbies and marron in South Australia. Adelaide : S.A. Department of Fisheries. (ecology)

Patterson, D.J. & Burford, M.A. 2001. A Guide to the Protozoa of Marine Aquaculture Ponds. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 54 pp.

Paynter, J.L. 1986. The disease status of freshwater prawns and crayfish. pp. 99-104, 112-113, 151-152 in Freshwater Aquaculture in Australia. Rural Press Queensland: Brisbane. (ecology)

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.

Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 163-323

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