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Genus Vorticella Linnaeus, 1767

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Genus Vorticella Linnaeus, 1767

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from eastern Queensland, south-eastern Australia, including Murray-Darling Region, and Tasmania; size not recorded.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, SA, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; Qld, SA, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Anderson, M.J. 1995. Variations in biofilm colonizing artificial substrates: seasonal effects and effects of grazers. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 75: 705-714

Anderson I.G. 1990. Diseases in Australian invertebrate aquaculture. pp. 38-48 in [Anon]. Fifth International Colloquium on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control. Adelaide : Society for Invertebrate Pathology. (ecology)

Colledge, W.R. 1909. Lecture on Brisbane pond life. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 22: 35

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.

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

Kobayashi, T. & Kotlash, A. 1994. Interactions between vorticellids (Protozoa: Peritrichida) and planktonic algae in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 114: 61-68

Laybourn-Parry, J., Boyall, J. & Rogers, P. 1999. The role of flagellated and ciliated protozoa in lagoon and grass filter sewage treatment systems. Water Research 33: 2971-2977

Maplestone, C.M. 1879. Infusoria in Australia. Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society of Victoria 1: 15-18

Nanney, D.L. & McCoy, J.W. 1976. Characterization of the species of the Tetrahymena pyriformis complex. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 95: 664-682

O'Donoghue, P.J., Beveridge, I. & Phillips, P.H. 1990. Parasites and ectocommensals of yabbies and marron in South Australia. Adelaide : S.A. Department of Fisheries. (ecology)

Owens, L. & Evans, L. 1989. Common diseases of freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium) and crayfish (marron and yabbies) relevant to Australia. pp. 227-240 in Invertebrates in Aquaculture. Refresher Course for Veterinarians. Post Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science: University of Sydney. (ecology)

Owens, L. & Hall-Mendelin, S. 1990. Diseases relevant to penaeid mariculture in tropical Austraia. pp. 421-432 in Perkins, F.O. & Cheng, T.C. (eds). Pathology in Marine Science. San Diego : Acadameic Press. (ecology)

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

Paynter, J.L. 1986. The disease status of freshwater prawns and crayfish. pp. 99-104, 112-113, 151-152 in Freshwater Aquaculture in Australia. Rural Press Queensland: Brisbane. (ecology)

Powling, I.J. 1980. Limnological features of some Victorian reservoirs. pp. 332-342 in Williams, W.D. (ed). An Ecological Basis for Water Resource Management. Canberra : Australian National University Press.

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.

Searle, J. 1918. Excursion to Heidelberg. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 34: 132-133

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

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

Stickland, J., Wilcox, J. & Daley, C. 1919. Excursion to Richmond Quarries. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 36: 4

Stickland, W. 1898. Excursion to Maribyrnong. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 15: 47

Wasteneys, H. 1905. Description of a typical Queensland Lagoon (The Enoggera Reservoir, near Brisbane). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 19: 105-132

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

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
02-Jul-2014 INTRAMACRONUCLEATA Lynn, 1996 02-Jul-2014 MODIFIED
18-Mar-2014 18-Mar-2014 MOVED
26-Jul-2012 26-Jul-2012 MODIFIED
22-Aug-2011 22-Aug-2011 MOVED
26-Jul-2012 10-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
09-Sep-2010 MODIFIED