Genus Nassula Ehrenberg, 1834

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• Nassula Ehrenberg, C.G. 1834. Dritter Beitrag zur Erkentnisse grosser Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1833: 145-336, pls 1-11 [Date published 1834: dated 1833].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from eastern Queensland, SE Australia and SW Australia; size 60-100 µm.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, salt lake.

General References

Gillies, C.D. 1915. A list of the recorded freshwater protozoa of Queensland, with a number of new records. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 27: 100-102

Post, F.J., Borowitzka, L.J., Borowitzka, M.A., Mackay, B. & Moulton, T. 1983. The protozoa of a Western Australian hypersaline lagoon. Hydrobiologia 105: 95-113

Stickland, W. 1898. Excursion to Willsmere. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 15: 2

Wasteneys, H. 1905. Description of a typical Queensland Lagoon (The Enoggera Reservoir, near Brisbane). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 19: 105-132

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