Subspecies Difflugia acuminata acuminata Ehrenberg, 1838

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• Difflugia acuminata Ehrenberg, C.G. 1838. Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene organismen. Ein blick in das tiefere organische leben der natur. Leipzig, Folio : Voss xviii + 547 pp. 64 pl. [microfilm of text without figures from copy held in Melbourne Public Library].

Introduction

Size: 100-300 x 35-120 µm

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, moss, soil dweller.

General References

Gillies, C.D. 1915. A list of the recorded freshwater protozoa of Queensland, with a number of new records. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 27: 100-102

Kobayashi, T., Shiel, R.J., Gibbs, P. & Dixon, P.I. 1998. Freshwater zooplankton in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Hydrobiologia 377: 133-145

Meisterfield, R. & Tan, L-W. 1998. First records of testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) from Mount Buffalo National Park, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 115: 231-238

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

Schewiakoff, W. 1893. Uber die geographische Verbreitung der Susswasser-Protozoen. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 41: 1-201 + 5 pls

Shiel., R.J. & Griggs, J.A. 1998. Aquatic microfauna from Lake Catani and environs, Mount Buffalo National Park. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 115: 226-230 pl. 4D

Whitelegge, T. 1886. List of the freshwater Rhizopoda of N.S. Wales. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(2): 497-506

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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