Genus Podophrya Ehrenberg, 1838

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• Podophrya Ehrenberg, C.G. 1838. Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene organismen. Ein blick in das tiefere organische leben der natur. Leipzig, Folio : Voss xviii + 547 pp. 64 pl. [microfilm of text without figures from copy held in Melbourne Public Library].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia. Free-living in freshwater and salt lake.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Ectosymbiotic (host(s): Macrobrachium sp. [PALAEMONIDAE] (exoskeleton)), freshwater, salt lake, 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

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

Paynter, J.L. 1986. The disease status of freshwater prawns and crayfish. pp. 99-104, 112-113, 151-152 in Freshwater Aquaculture in Australia. Rural Press Queensland: Brisbane. (Macrobrachium sp.)

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

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.

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