Genus Pyxicola Saville-Kent, 1882

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• Pyxicola Saville-Kent, W. 1882. A manual of the infusoria: including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate, and tentaculiferous protozoa, British and foreign, and an account of the organization and affinities of the sponges. London : David Bogue Vol. II pp. 473–913.

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from southeastern Australia, Tasmania and on southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN) ; NSW, 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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, marine.

General References

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.

Sorokin, Y.I. & Sorokin, P.Y. 2009. Analysis of plankton in the southern Great Barrier Reef: abundance and roles in throphodynamics. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89: 235-241

Stickland, J., Wilcox, J. & Daley, C. 1919. Excursion to Richmond Quarries. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 36: 4

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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