Species Lamtostyla australis (Blatterer & Foissner, 1988)

Museums

Regional Maps

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

Generic Combinations

• Lamtostyla australis (Blatterer & Foissner, 1988). —
  Petz, W. & Foissner, W. 1996. Morphology and morphogenesis of Lamtostyla edaphoni Berger and Foissner and Onychodromopsis flexilis Stokes, two hypotrichs (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from Antarctic soils. Acta Protozoologica 35: 257–280

Introduction

Size: 90-130 x 30-40 µm

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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

Soil dweller.

General References

Aescht, E. 2008. Annotated catalogue of "type material" of ciliates (Ciliophora) and some further protists at the Upper Austrian Museum in Linz, including a guideline for "typification" of species. pp. 125-234 in Aescht, E. & Berger, H. (eds). The Wilhelm Foissner Festschrift. Denisia 23

Berger, H. 2008. Monograph of the Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae (Ciliophora, Hypotricha). Dumont, H.J. (ed.) Monographiae Biologicae, Vol. 88 737pp. Dordrecht: Springer.

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

Foissner, W. 1988. Gemeinsame Arten in der terricolen Ciliatenfauna (Protozoa: Ciliophora) von Australien und Afrika. Stapfia 17: 85-133

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

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