Species Heleopera sylvatica Penard, 1890

Museums

Regional Maps

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

Introduction

Size: 59-70 x 39-48 µm

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Channel Country (CHC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, moss, soil dweller.

General References

Luftnegger, G. & Foissner, W. 1991. Morphology and biometry of twelve soil testate amoebae (Protozoa, Rhizopoda) from Australia, Africa, and Austria. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 57: 1-16

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

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

History of changes