Genus Cryptodifflugia Penard, 1890

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• Cryptodifflugia Penard, E. 1890. Etudes sur les Rhizopodes d'eau douce. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 31(2) [168].

  Type species:

   Cryptodifflugia oviformis Penard, 1890 by original designation.
• Difflugiella Cash, J. 1904. On some new and little-known British freshwater Rhizopoda. Journal of the Linnean Society 29: 218-225 [224].

  Type species:

   Difflugiella apiculata Cash, 1904 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Deflandre, G. 1953. Ordres des Testacealobosa, Testacaefilosa, Thalmia ou Thécamoebiens (Rhizopoda Testacea). pp. 97-148 in Grassé, P.-P. Traité de Zoologie. Paris : Masson Vol. 1(II).

Introduction

Unidenitified species recorded from Tasmania from moss and soil.

Size not recorded.

Hedley et al. (1977) note that Deflandre (1953) 'emended the generic diagnosis of both Cryptodifflugia Penard, 1890 and Difflugiella Cash, 1904 … emendations included transfer of the type species, C. oviformis, of the genus Cryptodifflugia to the genus Difflugiella' and comments that several authors 'agreed with Deflandre's changes'. But this seems to be confused. Nonetheless, with transfer of the type species of Cryptodifflugia to Difflugiella, the two genera are recognised as synonyms, in which case Cryptodifflugia, being the older name has priority.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Channel Country (CHC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) ; 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)

General References

Hedley, R.H., Ogden, C.G. & Morden, N.J. 1977. Biology and fine structure of Cryptodifflugia oviformis (Rhizopodea : Protozoa). Bulletin of the British Museum 30: 311-328

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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