UNUSUAL NEW WATER MITES (ACARI HYDRACARINA) FROM AUSTRALIA, Part 1
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 19 (1998–1999) | Updated 29 Aug 2012
Abstract - The following new water mites are described from Australia: Austrolimnochares gen. nov. (Limnocharidae: Rhyncholimnocharinae), with the type and only included species Paralimnochares womersleyi Lundblad from southeastern Australia; Pontaraclina ...
THREE NEW BLINDSNAKES (SQUAMATA TYPHLOPIDAE) FROM NORTHWESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract - Three new species of Ramphotyphlops are described from localities in northwestern Western Australia. Two are represented by a single specimen only, the third by four specimens. Each of the new species differs markedly from all previously descri ...
THE CERVANTES EGG AN EARLY MALAGSY TOURIST TO AUSTRALIA
Abstract - A large fossil bird's egg discovered near Cervantes in Western Australia is identified as belonging to Aepyornis maximus by its size and eggshell structure. It is the second such egg found in Western Australian Holocene beach dune deposits ...
REVISION OF THE MARINE SPONGE GENUS CAULOSPONGIA SAVILLE KENT, 1871 (DEMOSPONGIAE HADROMERIDA). Part 1. MORPHOLOGICAL AND SKELITAL CHARACTERS
Abstract - The sponge genus Caulospongia is reviewed and redefined to accommodate eight closely related species that belong to the genus. Four new species, Caulospongia amplexa , C. reticulata , C. venosa and C. biflabellata are described, and C. pennatul ...
REPRODUCTION AND DIET IN FOUR SPECIES OF BURROWING SNAKES (SIMOSELAPS SPP.) FROM SOUTHWESTERN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Part 1 57 57 STRAHAN, N.R., HOW, R.A. AND DELL, J. Abstract - The reproductive pattern and diet of four Simoselaps species were examined from 259 museum specimens collected from southwestern Western Australia. Few reproductively active females were recorded from the four species ( S. bertholdi , S. ...
NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORDS OF HERSILIIDAE FROM AUSTRALIA (ARACHNIDA ARANEAE HERSILIIDAE). SIXTH SUPPLEMENT TO THE REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN HERSILIIDAE
and Baehr, 1989 is synonymized with T. pseudocircumvidens Baehr and Baehr, 1987. New records containing range extensIons of several rare or rarely recorded hersiliid species are presented. NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORDS OF HERSILIIDAE FROM AUSTRALIA (ARACHNIDA ARANEAE HERSILIIDAE). SIXTH SUPPLEMENT TO THE ...
FURTHER RECORDS OF PLESIOSAURIAN REPTILES OF JURASSIC AND CRETACEOUS AGE FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
the Late Cretaceous Molecap Greensand, near Dandaragan, Perth Basin. The first records of elasmosaurid plesiosaurians are described from Western Australia, including the oldest record of the group in Australia. FURTHER RECORDS OF PLESIOSAURIAN REPTILES OF JURASSIC AND CRETACEOUS AGE FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA ...
A REVIEW OF THE AUSTRALASIAN SPECIES OF ANAPISTULA GERTSCH (ARANEAE SYMPHYTOGNATHIDAE)
Abstract - The Australasian species of Anapistula Gertsch are revised and six species are recognised: A. australia Forster (Queensland), A. troglobia sp. nov. (Western Australia), A. bifurcata sp. nov. (Northern Territory), A. cuttacutta sp. nov. (Nothern ...
A NEW JURASSIC THEROPOD DINOSAUR FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract - A Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) theropod dinosaur, Ozraptor subotaii , gen. et sp. nov., is described from the ColaIura Sandstone of Western Australia, based on the distal end of a left tibia. The astragalar facet indicates that the dorsal process ...
A NEW GENUS OF THE WATER MITE FAMILY PIERSIGIIDAE FROM AUSTRALIA (ACARI HYDRACHIDIA)
Part 1 19 19 SMIT, HARRY Abstract - A new genus from the water mite subfamily Piersigiinae and its sole new species, Austrapiersigia montana , are described from Victoria, Australia. It is the first record of this subfamily for the southern hemisphere. A NEW GENUS OF THE WATER MITE FAMILY PIERSIGIIDAE ...