Genus Paramecium Müller, 1773

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• Paramecium 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.
• Paramoecium Hermann, J. 1783. Tabula Affinitatum Animalium, olim academico specimene edita nunc uberiore commentario illustrata cum annotationibus ad historiam naturalem animalium augendam facientibus. Argentorati : J.G. Treuttel 370 pp. [published before Nov. 5 or 15].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from eastern Queensland, south-eastern Australia, and Tasmania; size not recorded.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; 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) ; NT, Qld, SA: Channel Country (CHC), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

General References

Gibbons, S. 1874. Air and water poisoning in Melbourne. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 10: 180-202

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

Hansen, J.A., Klumpp, D.W., Alongi, D.M., Dayton, P.K. & Riddle, M.J. 1992. Detrital pathways in a coral reef lagoon. II. Detritus deposition, benthic microbial biomass and production. Marine Biology 113: 363-372

Horning, E.S. 1926. Studies on the mitochondria of Paramoecium. Australian Journal for Experimental Biology and Medical Science 3: 89-95

Horning, E.S. 1927. On the relation of the mitochondria to the nucleus. Australian Journal for Experimental Biology and Medical Science 4: 75-78

Laybourn-Parry, J., Boyall, J. & Rogers, P. 1999. The role of flagellated and ciliated protozoa in lagoon and grass filter sewage treatment systems. Water Research 33: 2971-2977

Maplestone, C.M. 1879. Infusoria in Australia. Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society of Victoria 1: 15-18

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.

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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