• Vorticella Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Tomus I. Regnum Animale(pars 2) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766–68], pp. 533–1327.

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

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

• Vorticella aquadulcis Stokes, A. C. 1887. Notices on new fresh-water infusoria. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society xxiv: 244–255.

Introduction

Size: 15-55 x 10-35 µm; region: not recorded

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

General References

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.

History of changes

• Vorticella astyliformis Foissner, W. 1981. Morphologie und Taxonomie einiger neuer und wenig bekannter kinetofragminophorer Ciliaten (Protozoa: Ciliophora) aus alpinen Böden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 108: 264-297.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA

Qld, SA, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Moss, soil dweller.

General References

Blatterer, H. & Foissner, W. 1988. Beitrag zur terricolen Ciliatenfauna (Protozoa, Ciliophora) Australiens. Stapfia 17: 1-84

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., Agatha, S. & Berger, H. 2002. Soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Namibia (Southwest Africa), with emphasis on two contrasting environments, the Etosha Region and the Namib Desert. Denisia 5: 1-1459

History of changes

• Vorticella calciformis Kahl 1933. Ciliata libera et ectocommensalia. Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. Leipzig 23: 29-146.

Distribution

IBRA

Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Symbiotic (host(s): Cherax destructor (Clark, 1936) [PARASTACIDAE] Inland Yabbie (gills, pleopods); Cherax tenuimanus (Smith, 1912) [PARASTACIDAE] Marron (gills, pleopods)).

Associated Fauna References

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. (Cherax destructor; Cherax tenuimanus)

History of changes

• Vorticella campanula Ehrenberg, G.C. 1831. Symbolae physicae. Berolini.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

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

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

History of changes

• Vorticella chlorostigma Ehrenberg, G.C. 1831. Symbolae physicae. Berolini.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

IBRA

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

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

• Vorticella convallaria Linnaeus, C. 1759. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [=Stockholm] : impensis direct. Laurentii Salvi Tomus II editio decima reformata, pp. 825–1384.

Distribution

IBRA

Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Symbiotic (host(s): Cherax destructor (Clark, 1936) [PARASTACIDAE] Inland Yabbie (gills, pleopods); Cherax tenuimanus (Smith, 1912) [PARASTACIDAE] Marron (gills, pleopods)).

Associated Fauna References

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. (Cherax destructor; Cherax tenuimanus)

History of changes

• Vorticella dilatata de Fromentel, E. 1874. Études sur les microzoaires ou infusoires proprement dits. Paris : Massons pp.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

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

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

• Vorticella flexuosa Nenninger, U. 1948. Die Peritrichen der Umgebung von Erlangen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Wirtsspezifität. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 77: 169–266.

Distribution

IBRA

Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Symbiotic (host(s): Cherax destructor (Clark, 1936) [PARASTACIDAE] Inland Yabbie (gills, pleopods); Cherax tenuimanus (Smith, 1912) [PARASTACIDAE] Marron (gills, pleopods)).

Associated Fauna References

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. (Cherax destructor; Cherax tenuimanus)

History of changes

• Vorticella infusionum Dujardin, F. 1841. Histoire naturelle des zoophytes infusoires comprenant la physiologie et la manière de les étudier à l'aide du microscope. Paris : Octavo XII 684 pp.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA

SA, Tas: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller.

General References

Blatterer, H. & Foissner, W. 1988. Beitrag zur terricolen Ciliatenfauna (Protozoa, Ciliophora) Australiens. Stapfia 17: 1-84

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., Agatha, S. & Berger, H. 2002. Soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Namibia (Southwest Africa), with emphasis on two contrasting environments, the Etosha Region and the Namib Desert. Denisia 5: 1-1459

History of changes

• Vorticella jaerae Precht, H. 1935. Die Struktur des Stieles bei den Sessilia. Archiv für Protistenkunde 85: 234-250.

Distribution

IBRA

Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Symbiotic (host(s): Cherax destructor (Clark, 1936) [PARASTACIDAE] Inland Yabbie (gills, pleopods); Cherax tenuimanus (Smith, 1912) [PARASTACIDAE] Marron (gills, pleopods)).

Associated Fauna References

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. (Cherax destructor; Cherax tenuimanus)

History of changes

• Vorticella microstoma 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: 36-67 x 18-30 µm

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, soil dweller.

General References

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

Fielder, W. 1893. Excursion to Heidelberg. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 9: 135-136

Finlay, B.J., Esteban, G.F., Olmo, J.L. & Tyler, P.A. 1999. Global distribution of free-living microbial species. Ecography 22: 138-144

Gibbons, S. 1874. Air and water poisoning in Melbourne. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 10: 180-202

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

Pomp, R. & Wilbert, N. 1988. Taxonomic and ecological studies of ciliates from Australian saline soils. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 39: 479-495

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

History of changes

• Vorticella monilata Tatem, J. G. 1869. On a new ciliated Infusorium. Monthly Microscopical Journal 117–118.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

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

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

• Vorticella nana Kahl, A. 1932. Urtiere oder Protozoa. I. Wimpertiere oder Ciliata (Infusoria). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile 25: 399-650.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

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

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

History of changes

• Vorticella nebulifera 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.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

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

Fielder, W. 1893. Excursion to Heidelberg. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 9: 135-136

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

• Vorticella similis Stokes, A.C. 1887. Notices of New Fresh-water Infusoria, vi. American Monthly Microscopical Journal 141-147.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller.

General References

Blatterer, H. & Foissner, W. 1988. Beitrag zur terricolen Ciliatenfauna (Protozoa, Ciliophora) Australiens. Stapfia 17: 1-84

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

History of changes

• Vorticella striata Dujardin, F. 1841. Histoire naturelle des zoophytes infusoires comprenant la physiologie et la manière de les étudier à l'aide du microscope. Paris : Octavo XII 684 pp.

Introduction

Size: not recorded

Distribution

IBRA

Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller.

General References

Pomp, R. & Wilbert, N. 1988. Taxonomic and ecological studies of ciliates from Australian saline soils. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 39: 479-495

History of changes