Species Litonotus lamella (Müller, 1773)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kolpoda lamella Müller, O.F. 1773. Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilum, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinum, succincta historia. Prefatio 14 pp., Auctores 5 pp., Vermes 11 pp., Infusoria. Havniae & Lipsiae Vol. 1(1) pp. 1-135.

Generic Combinations

• Litonotus lamella (Müller, 1773). —
  Foissner, W., Berger, H., Blatterer, H. & Kohmann, F. 1995. Taxonomische und okologische Revision der Ciliaten des Saprobiensystems. Band IV: Gymnostomatea, Loxodes, Suctoria. Informationsberichte des Bayerisches Landesamtes für Wasserwirtschaft, München 1/95: 540 pp.

Introduction

Size: 48-100 x 9-25 µm.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, marine.

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

Esteban, G.F., Finlay, B.J., Olmo, J.L. & Tyler, P.A. 2000. Ciliated protozoa from a volcanic crater-lake in Victoria, Australia. Journal of Natural History 34: 159-189

Finlay, B.J., Esteban, G.F., Olmo, J.L. & Tyler, P.A. 1999. Global distribution of free-living microbial species. Ecography 22: 138-144

Foissner, W., Berger, H., Blatterer, H. & Kohmann, F. 1995. Taxonomische und okologische Revision der Ciliaten des Saprobiensystems. Band IV: Gymnostomatea, Loxodes, Suctoria. Informationsberichte des Bayerisches Landesamtes für Wasserwirtschaft, München 1/95: 540 pp.

Foissner, W. & O'Donoghue, P.J. 1990. Morphology and infraciliature of some freshwater ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from Western and South Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 661-696

History of changes