Species Gonostomum affine (Stein, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oxytricha affine Stein, F. 1859. Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere nach eigenen Forschungen in systematischer Reihenfolge bearbeitet. Abt I. Die hypotrichen infusionsthiere. Leipzig : Engelmann pp. 206 + pl. i-xiv.

Generic Combinations

• Gonostomum affine (Stein, 1859). —
  Sterki V. 1878. Beiträge zur Morphologie der Oxytrichinen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 31: 29-58, pl. 4

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Among bark, moss, soil dweller.

General References

Berger, H. 1999. Monograph of the Oxytrichidae (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia). Dordrecht : Monographiae Biologicae, Kluwer Academic Publishers Vol. 78 1080 pp.

Blatterer, H. & Foissner, W. 1988. Beitrag zur terricolen Ciliatenfauna (Protozoa, Ciliophora) Australiens. Stapfia 17: 1-84

Foissner, W. 1997. Soil ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from evergreen rain forests of Australia, South America and Costa Rica; diversity and description of new species. Biology and Fertility of Soils 25: 317-339

Foissner, W. 1998. An updated compilation of world soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora), with ecological notes, new records, and descriptions of new species. European Journal of Protistology 34: 195-235

Foissner, W., Agatha, S. & Berger, H. 2002. Soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Namibia (Southwest Africa), with emphasis on two contrasting environments, the Etosha Region and the Namib Desert. Denisia 5: 1-1459

Foissner, W., Stoeck, T., Schmidt, H. & Berger, H. 2001. Biogeographical differences in a common soil ciliate, Gonostomum affine (Stein), as revealed by morphological and RAPD-fingerprint analysis. Acta Protozoologica 40: 83-97

Pomp, R. & Wilbert, N. 1988. Taxonomic and ecological studies of ciliates from Australian saline soils. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 39: 479-495

Wilbert, N. 1995. Benthic ciliates of salt lakes. Acta Protozoologica 34: 271-288

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