Species Steinia platystoma (Ehrenberg, 1831)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oxytricha platystoma Ehrenberg, C.G. 1831. Symbolae Physicae, seu Icones et descriptiones Corporum Naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum, quae ex itineribus per Libyam, Aegyptum, Nubiam, Dongalam, Syriam, Arabiam et Habessiniam ... studio annis 1820-25 redirerunt. Pars Zoologica. v.4. Animalis Evertebrata exclusis Insectis. Berlin.

Generic Combinations

• Steinia platystoma (Ehrenberg, 1831). —
  Diesing, K.M. 1866. Revision der Prothelminthen. Abteilung: Mastigophoren. Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 1 52: 287-401

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

Freshwater.

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. 1891. On the recent discolouration of the waters of Port Jackson. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 179-192

History of changes