Genus Stentor Oken, 1815

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• Stentor Oken, L. 1815. Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil, Zoologie. Erste Abteilung. Jena : Schmid pp. i-xxviii, 1-842. [1815: pp. 1-841, Register; 1816: Atlas, I-IV, pls I-XVII].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from freshwater in eastern Queensland, SE Australia and the Murray Darling Region; size not recorded.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Aiptasia pulchella (Carlgren, 1943) [AIPTASIIDAE] Glass Anemone (tissue homogenate); Capnella gaboensis (Verseveldt, 1977) [NEPHTHEIDAE] Soft Coral (tissue homogenate); Parerythropodium sp. [NEPHTHEIDAE] Soft Coral (tissue homogenate); Plesiastrea verispora Lamarck, 1816 [FAVIIDAE] Scleractinian Coral (tissue homogenate); Zoanthus robustus (Carlgren, 1950) [ZOANTHIDAE] Zoanthid (issue homogenate)).

Extra Ecological Information

Unidentified species of Stentor have been found in the listed parasite hosts.

General References

Fielder, W. 1893. Excursion to Heidelberg. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 9: 135-136

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

Ingram, B.A., Hawking, J.H. & Shiel, R.J. 1997. Aquatic life in freshwater ponds. A guide to the identification and ecology of life in aquaculture ponds and farm dams in South Eastern Australia. Identification Guide No. 9. Albury : Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology 105 pp.

Laybourn-Parry, J., Periss, S.J., Seaton, G.G.R. & Rohozinski, J. 1996. A mixotrophic ciliate as a major contributor to plankton photosynthesis in Australian lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 42: 1463-1467

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.

Stickland, J. 1923. The aquatic protozoa of the Melbourne district. Part I. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 40: 65-74

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