Subspecies Euglypha cristata cristata Leidy, 1874

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euglypha cristata Leidy, J. 1874. Notices of some Rhizopods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1874: 225-227 [226].

Introduction

Size: 33-70 x 12-23 µm

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), 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), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), 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

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

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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