First records of myxomycetes from Bathurst Island (one of the Tiwi Islands) in the Northern Territory, Australia

Title
First records of myxomycetes from Bathurst Island (one of the Tiwi Islands) in the Northern Territory, Australia
Publication Date
2020-12
Author(s)
White, Mary A
Elliott, Todd F
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9304-7040
Email: tellio20@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tellio20
Kennedy, Brooke P A
Stephenson, Steven L
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1111/aec.12937
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/30683
Abstract
Myxomycetes, also known as plasmodial slime moulds or myxogastrids, are a widespread but often overlooked group of amoeboid eukaryotes. There are still many regions where they have been poorly studied or entirely overlooked. In an effort to more completely document myxomycete diversity and distribution in Australia, we provide the first report of myxomycete occurrence on the Tiwi Islands. Four of the species recorded from Bathurst Island are new records for the Northern Territory. This natural history note is based on 50 moist chamber cultures prepared with substrate samples collected on Bathurst Island. These cultures yielded 28 specimens representing a total of twelve species in eight genera.
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Citation
Austral Ecology, 45(8), p. 1183-1187
ISSN
1442-9993
1442-9985
Start page
1183
End page
1187

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