Genus Lesquereusia Schlumberger, 1845

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• Lesquereusia Schlumberger, P. 1845. Observations sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'Infusoires de la famille des Rhizopodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 3 3: 254-256 [emendation; emended by Hopkinson in Cash & Hopkinson (1909)].
• Lecquerensia [subsequent misspelling].
• Lecquereusia [subsequent misspelling].
• Lecqereusia Schlumberger, 1845 [original spelling; lapsus — this genus was named after the Swiss naturalist Lesquereux].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from Tasmania and New South Wales.
Size: not recorded.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

General References

Seamer, D.G. 1998. Freshwater Protozoa of Tasmania. A New Guide to the Identification of Tasmania's Freshwater Protozoa. Printing Authority of Tasmaina : WRA Unit Report 98/05. Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries 141 pp.

Shiel., R.J. & Griggs, J.A. 1998. Aquatic microfauna from Lake Catani and environs, Mount Buffalo National Park. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 115: 226-230 pl. 4D

Walsh, R.J.G., Shiel, R.J. & Tyler, P.A. 2001. Reconnaissance limnology of Tasmania, VII. Coastal lagoons of Bass Strait islands, with reference to endemic microflora and microfauna. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 152: 489-510

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