Subspecies Difflugia oviformis oviformis Cash & Hopkinson, 1909

Museums

Regional Maps

• Difflugia oviformis Cash, J. & Hopkinson, J. 1909. British Freshwater Rhizopods and Heliozoa. Vol. 2. Rhizopoda. part ii. London : Ray Society xviii 166 pp.

Introduction

Size: 65-120 x 30-90 µm

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, moss, soil dweller.

General References

Gauthier-Lievre, L. & Thomas, R. 1958. Le genres Difflugia, Pentagonia, Maghrebia et Hoogenraadia (Rhizopodes testaces) en Afrique. Archiv für Protistenkunde 103: 16-370

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

History of changes