Genus Oxytricha Bory de Saint Vincent in Lamouroux, Bory de Saint-Vincent & Deslongchamps, 1824

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• Oxytricha Bory de Saint-Vincent, J., Lamouroux, J. & Deslongchamps, E. 1824. Encyclopedie Methodique, Histoire naturelle des zoophytes, ou animaux rayonnés. Paris : Agasse: Imprimeur-Libraire, rue des Poitevins Vol. 2 819 pp.

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from Tasmania and Murray-Darling Basin; size not recorded.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller.

General References

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.

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.

History of changes