Species Stylonychia mytilus (Müller, 1773)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trichoda mytilus Müller, O.F. 1773. Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilum, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinum, succincta historia. Prefatio 14 pp., Auctores 5 pp., Vermes 11 pp., Infusoria. Havniae & Lipsiae Vol. 1(1) pp. 1-135.

Generic Combinations

• Stylonychia mytilus (Müller, 1773). —
  Ehrenberg, C.G. 1830. Organisation, Systematik und geographisches Verhältnis der Infusionsthierchen. Zwei Vorträge in der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin gehalten in den Jahren 1828 und 1839. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1830: 1-108 8 pls

Introduction

Size: 80-300 µm

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

Ammermann, D. 2008. Cell size and dorsal cilia: are they useful features for the identification of Stylonychia mytilus (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) and its subpopulations. European Journal of Protistology 44: 263-268

Berger, H. 1999. Monograph of the Oxytrichidae (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia). Dordrecht : Monographiae Biologicae, Kluwer Academic Publishers Vol. 78 1080 pp.

Foissner, W. 1998. An updated compilation of world soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora), with ecological notes, new records, and descriptions of new species. European Journal of Protistology 34: 195-235

Foissner, W., Blatterer, H., Berger, H. & Kohmann, F. 1991. Taxonomische und okologische Revision der Ciliaten des Saprobiensystems. Band 1: Cyrtophorida, Oligotrichida, Hypotrichia, Colpodea. Informationsberichte des Bayerisches Landesamtes für Wasserwirtschaft, München 1/91: 478 pp.

Schewiakoff, W. 1893. Uber die geographische Verbreitung der Susswasser-Protozoen. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 41: 1-201 + 5 pls

Shephard, J., Searle, J. & Stickland, J. 1918. One year's collecting micro-fauna, Botanic Gardens Lake, Melbourne. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 35: 79-84

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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