Species Cryptodifflugia oviformis Penard, 1890

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cryptodifflugia oviformis Penard, E. 1890. Etudes sur les Rhizopodes d'eau douce. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 31(2).
• Cryptodifflugia oviformis fusca Penard, E. 1890. Etudes sur les Rhizopodes d'eau douce. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 31(2).

Generic Combinations

• Difflugiella oviformis fusca (Penard, 1890). —
  Bonnet, L. & Thomas, R. 1955. Étude sur les Thécamoebiens du sol (1). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 90: 411-428
• Difflugiella oviformis (Penard, 1890).

Introduction

Size: 13-26 x 8-18 µm

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, moss, soil dweller.

General References

Ogden, C.G. & Hedley, R.H. 1980. An Atlas of Freshwater Testate Amoebae. British Museum (Natural History), Oxford University Press 222 pp.

Playfair, G.I. 1918. Rhizopods of Sydney and Lismore. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42: 633-675 + 8 pls

Robinson, B.S., Bamforth, S.S. & Dobson, P.J. 2002. Density and diversity of protozoa in some arid Australian soils. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 49: 449-453

Seamer, D. & Croome, R. 2007. Observations of testate amoebae (Rhizopoda, Protozoa) from a Sphagnum bog in Jackeys Marsh, Northern Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 141: 197-201

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