Species Trematosoma bocqueti (Guilcher, 1950)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acineta bocqueti Guilcher, Y. 1950. Sur quelques Acinétiens nouveaux ectoparasites de Copépodes Harpacticides. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 87: 24-30.

Generic Combinations

• Trematosoma bocqueti (Guilcher, 1950). —
  Batisse, A. 1973. Premières observations sur l'ultrastructure de Tremasoma boqueti (Guilcher) Batisse (Ciliata, Suctorida). Protistologica 8 (1972): 477-496

Introduction

Size: 20 µm

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Salt lake, symbiotic (host(s): Onyx sp. [DESMODORIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Quadricoma sp. [DESMOSCOLECIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Spirinia sp. [DESMODORIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Tricoma sp. [DESMOSCOLECIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Desmoscolex sp. [DESMOSCOLECIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle); Pseudochromadora cazca Gerlach, 1956 [DESMODORIDAE] Free-living marine nematode (cuticle)).

General References

Post, F.J., Borowitzka, L.J., Borowitzka, M.A., Mackay, B. & Moulton, T. 1983. The protozoa of a Western Australian hypersaline lagoon. Hydrobiologia 105: 95-113

History of changes