Species Deltotrichonympha operculata Sutherland, 1933

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• Deltotrichonympha operculata Sutherland, J.L. 1933. Protozoa from Australian termites. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 76: 145-173.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Symbiotic (host(s): Mastotermes darwiniensis Froggatt, 1896 [MASTOTERMITIDAE] Giant Termite (hindgut)).

Associated Fauna References

Cleveland, L.R. 1966. General features of the flagellate and amoeboid stages of Deltotrichonympha operculata and D. nana, sp. nov. Archiv für Protistenkunde 109: 1-7 (Mastotermes darwiniensis)

Hollande, A. 1986. Morphologie, ultrastructure et affinities de Deltotrichonympha operculata Sutherland (1953) symbionte du termite Australien Mastotermes darwiniensis Frogatt. Protistologica 22: 415-439 (Mastotermes darwiniensis)

Sutherland, J.L. 1933. Protozoa from Australian termites. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 76: 145-173 (Mastotermes darwiniensis)

Tamm, S. & Tamm, S.L. 1973. The fine structure of the centriolar apparatus and associated structures in the flagellates Deltotrichonympha and Koruga. I. Interphase. Journal of Protozoology 20: 230-245 (Mastotermes darwiniensis)

Tamm, S. & Tamm, S.L. 1973. The fine structure of the centriolar apparatus and associated structures in the flagellates Deltotrichonympha and Koruga. II. Division. Journal of Protozoology 20: 245-252 (Mastotermes darwiniensis)

Tamm, S.L. 1999. Locomotory waves of Koruga and Deltotrichonympha: flagella wag the cell. Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 43: 145-158 (Mastotermes darwiniensis)

Veivers, P.C., Musca, A.M., O'Brien, R.W. & Slaytor, M. 1982. Digestive enzymes of the salivary glands and gut of Mastotermes darwiniensis. Insect Biochemistry 12: 35-40 (Mastotermes darwiniensis)

Veivers, P.C., O'Brien, R.W. & Slaytor, M. 1983. Selective defaunation of Mastotermes darwiniensis and its effect on cellulose and starch metabolism. Insect Biochemistry 13: 95-101 (Mastotermes darwiniensis)

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