Species Epistylis plicatilis Ehrenberg, 1831

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• Epistylis plicatilis Ehrenberg, C.G. 1831. Symbolae Physicae, seu Icones et descriptiones Corporum Naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum, quae ex itineribus per Libyam, Aegyptum, Nubiam, Dongalam, Syriam, Arabiam et Habessiniam ... studio annis 1820-25 redirerunt. Pars Zoologica. v.4. Animalis Evertebrata exclusis Insectis. Berlin.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, symbiotic (host(s): Cherax albidus Clark, 1936 [PARASTACIDAE] White Yabby (exoskeleton); Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) [PARASTACIDAE] Redclaw (exoskeleton); Penaeus monodon Fabricus, 1798 [PENEIDAE] Giant Tiger Prawn (gills); Scylla serrata Forsskål, 1755 [PORTUNIDAE] Mud Crab, Mangrove Crab (gills); Cherax destructor (Clark, 1936) [PARASTACIDAE] Inland Yabbie (gills, pleopods); Cherax tenuimanus (Smith, 1912) [PARASTACIDAE] Marron (gill, exoskeleton); Leptodius sanguineus Edwards, 1834 [XANTHIDAE] Xanthid Crab (gills); Macrobrachium sp. [PALAEMONIDAE]; Penaeus sp. [PENAEIDAE]).

General References

Searle, J. 1918. Excursion to Heidelberg. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 34: 132-133

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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