Genus Strombidium Claparede & Lachmann, 1859

Museums

Regional Maps

• Strombidium Claparède, E. & Lachmann, J. 1859. Etudes sur les infusoires et les rhizopodes. Mémoires de l'Institut National Genevois 7: 1-291 [third part].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from SE Australia and the Great Barrier Reef; 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, marine.

General References

Alongi, D.M. 1986. Quantitative estimates of benthic protozoa in tropical marine systems using silica gel: a comparison of methods. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 23: 443-450

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

Kobayashi, T., Shiel, R.J., Gibbs, P. & Dixon, P.I. 1998. Freshwater zooplankton in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Hydrobiologia 377: 133-145

Patterson, D.J. & Burford, M.A. 2001. A Guide to the Protozoa of Marine Aquaculture Ponds. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 54 pp.

Sorokin, Y.I. 1994. Role of plankton in the turnover of organic matter on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Hydrobiologia 308: 35-44

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

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