Species Urotricha furcata Schewiakoff, 1892

Museums

Regional Maps

• Urotricha furcata Schewiakoff, W. 1892. Ueber die geographische Verbreitung der Süsswasser-Protozoan. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch-Medizinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg iv(5): 544-567.

Introduction

Size: 14-30 x 11-20 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

Freshwater.

General References

Aescht, E. 2008. Annotated catalogue of "type material" of ciliates (Ciliophora) and some further protists at the Upper Austrian Museum in Linz, including a guideline for "typification" of species. pp. 125-234 in Aescht, E. & Berger, H. (eds). The Wilhelm Foissner Festschrift. Denisia 23

Foissner, W., Berger, H. & Kohmann, F. 1994. Taxonomische und okologische Revision der Ciliaten des Saprobiensystems. Band III: Hymenostomata, Prostomatida, Nassulida. Informationsberichte des Bayerisches Landesamtes für Wasserwirtschaft, München 1/94: 548 pp.

Foissner, W., Berger, H. & Schaumburg, J. 1999. Identification and Ecology of Limnetic Plankton Ciliates. Informationsberichte des Bayerisches Landesamtes für Wasserwirtschaft, München 3/99: 793 pp.

Foissner, W. & O'Donoghue, P.J. 1990. Morphology and infraciliature of some freshwater ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from Western and South Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 661-696

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