Species Oxytricha auripunctata Blatterer & Foissner, 1988

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oxytricha auripunctata Blatterer, H. & Foissner, W. 1988. Beitrag zur terricolen Ciliatenfauna (Protozoa, Ciliophora) Australiens. Stapfia 17: 1-84 [61].

Introduction

Size: 80-130 x 25-35 µm

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Moss, soil dweller.

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

Berger, H. 1999. Monograph of the Oxytrichidae (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia). Dordrecht : Monographiae Biologicae, Kluwer Academic Publishers Vol. 78 1080 pp.

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

Foissner, W. 1998. An updated compilation of world soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora), with ecological notes, new records, and descriptions of new species. European Journal of Protistology 34: 195-235

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