Species Loricophrya edmondsoni (King, 1931)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thecacineta edmondsoni King, R.L. 1931. Two new infusoria (Protozoa) from Iowa. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science 38: 241-243 [Date published 1931; dated 1932].

Generic Combinations

• Loricophrya edmondsoni (King, 1931). —
  Matthes, D. 1956. Suctorienstudium VIII Thecacineta calix (Schröder, 1907) (Thecacinetidae nov. fam.) und ihre Fortpflanzung durch Vermoid-Schwämer. Archiv für Protistenkunde 101: 477-528

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Moss, soil dweller, symbiotic (host(s): Onyx sp. [DESMODORIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Quadricoma sp. [DESMOSCOLECIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Spirinia sp. [DESMODORIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Tricoma sp. [DESMOSCOLECIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Desmoscolex sp. [DESMOSCOLECIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Pseudochromadora cazca Gerlach, 1956 [DESMODORIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle)).

General References

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

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