Species Podophrya fixa Müller, 1786

Museums

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• Podophrya fixa Müller, O.F. 1786. Animalcula infusoria fluviatilia et marina : quae detexit, systematice descripsit et ad vivum delineari curavit / Otho Fridericus Müller ... ; sistit opus hoc posthumum quod cum tabulis aeneis L. in lucem tradit, vidua ejus nobilissima, cura Othonis Fabricii …. Hauniae : Typis Nicolai Mölleri ... [8], lvi, 367 pp.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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)

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

Esteban, G.F., Finlay, B.J., Olmo, J.L. & Tyler, P.A. 2000. Ciliated protozoa from a volcanic crater-lake in Victoria, Australia. Journal of Natural History 34: 159-189

Finlay, B.J., Esteban, G.F., Olmo, J.L. & Tyler, P.A. 1999. Global distribution of free-living microbial species. Ecography 22: 138-144

Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 163-323

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