Genus Difflugia Leclerc, 1815

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• Difflugia Leclerc, 1815.

  Type species:

   Difflugia proteiformis Lamarck, 1816 by original designation.

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from eastern Australia and Tasmania.
Size: not recorded.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld, Tas: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, moss, soil dweller.

General References

Andrews, E.A. 1950. Folliculinids in Australia. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 69: 413-421

Anon. 1843. 11. Mai Gesammtsitzung der Akademie. Bericht uber die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Koniglichen Preufs. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin Gesammsitzung der Akademie 1843: 137-143

Decloitre, L. 1964. Thecamobiens de la XIIe Expedition Antarctique Française. Expeditions, Polaires Françaises (Missions Paul-Emile Victor) Vol. No. 259 47 pp.

Hardy, A.D. 1914. Excursion to Baw Baw. Algae. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 30: 209-210

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., Gibbs P., Dixon P.I. & Shiel R.J. 1996. Grazing by a river zooplankton community: importance of microzooplankton. Marine and Freshwater Research 47: 1025-1036

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.

Shiel, R.J. 1986. Zooplankton of the Murray-Darling system. pp. 661-677 in Davies, B.R. & Walker, K.F. (eds). The Ecology of River Systems. Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Dr W. Junk Publishers.

Walsh, R.J.G., Shiel, R.J. & Tyler, P.A. 2001. Reconnaissance limnology of Tasmania, VII. Coastal lagoons of Bass Strait islands, with reference to endemic microflora and microfauna. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 152: 489-510

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