Subspecies Lesquereusia spiralis spiralis (Ehrenberg, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Difflugia spiralis Ehrenberg, G.C. 1840. Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. Abhandlungen der Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Physikalische Klasse) 1838: 59-147.

Generic Combinations

• Lesquereusia spiralis spiralis (Ehrenberg, 1840). —
  Bütschli, O. 1880. Protozoa. In, Bronn, H.G. Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs. Leipsig & Heidelberg Vol. i.

Introduction

Size: 89-120 x 86-109 x 62-84 µm

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), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

General References

Anon. 1886. Australian fresh-water Rhizopoda. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, London 6: 815

Anon. 1990. Biology, the Common Threads. Part 1. Canberra : Australian Academy of Science 33 pp.

Ingram, B.A., Hawking, J.H. & Shiel, R.J. 1997. Aquatic life in freshwater ponds. A guide to the identification and ecology of life in aquaculture ponds and farm dams in South Eastern Australia. Identification Guide No. 9. Albury : Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology 105 pp.

Lendenfeld, R.V. 1885. The Australian freshwater Rhizopoda. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales Supplement 10: 723-725

Ogden, C.G. & Hedley, R.H. 1980. An Atlas of Freshwater Testate Amoebae. British Museum (Natural History), Oxford University Press 222 pp.

Schewiakoff, W. 1893. Uber die geographische Verbreitung der Susswasser-Protozoen. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 41: 1-201 + 5 pls

Shiel, R.J. 1995. Billabongs. Australasian Science 16: 10-13

Stickland, J. 1923. The aquatic protozoa of the Melbourne district. Part I. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 40: 65-74

Thomasson, K. 1986. Algal vegetation in North Australian billabongs. Nova Hedwigia 42: 301-378

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