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Walter Koste and Russell J. Shiel; New Rotifera (Aschelminthes) from Tasmania. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 109(3):93-109, 1986
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One hundred Tasmanian aquatic habitats were surveyed for Rotifera in Spring 1985. Of 130 species identified, 63 were first records for Tasmania, 17 new to Australia and four (Brachionus lyratus tasmaniensis ssp. nov., Lepadella tana sp. nov., Cephalodella lindamaya sp. nov., and Testudinella mucronata tasmaniensis ssp. nov.) new to science, bringing to approximately 200 the rotifers known from the island. New taxa are discribed and figured; several of the first records for Australia also are figured, and ecological and zoogeographical peculiarities of the Tasmanian Rotifera are discussed.