Genus Dicranophorus Nitzsch, 1827

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dicranophorus Nitzsch, C.L. 1827. Cercaria. Allg. Encycl. Wissensch, und Künste. 1 sect. Leipzig : Ersch & Gruber Vol. 16 pp. 66-69. [68].
• Dorria Myers, F.J. 1933. A new genus of Rotifers (Dorria). With observations on Cephalodella crassipes (Lord) and Dorria dalecarlica gen. n., sp. n. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, London 3 53: 118-121.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Jersabek, C.D. & Leitner, M.F. 2013. Dicranophorus Nitzsch, 1827. The Rotifer World Catalog. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.rotifera.hausdernatur.at/Species/Index/222 (accessed 21/12/2016)

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Unidentified/undescribed species

Three undescribed species, 'sp. a' from Gwydir R., Moree, NSW; 'sp. b' from Vic. (Koste, unpublished 1989: trophi drawn, but only single ind. From Ryan's #1 billabong nr Bonegilla) 'sp. c' from Tas (Shiel, unpublished 2003).

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