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A new species of Synsphyronus (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypidae) from Western Australia

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 27 (2012) | Updated 25 Jan 2017

– A new species of Synsphyronus, S. christopherdarwini , is described from Charles Darwin Reserve, Western Australia. The species occurs on several granite outcrops where they congregate under exfoliating pieces of granite. A new species of Synsphyronus (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypidae) from Western Australia ...

A new species of the genus Pheropsophus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae) from northern Australia

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 27 (2012) | Updated 25 Jan 2017

– A new species of the brachinine genus Pheropsophus Solier is described from far northern and north-western Australia: P. windjanae sp. nov. The new species which previously was not discriminated from P. verticalis (Dejean) is distinguished from that species by short and wide, posteriad considerably widened ...

A new species of fruit bat (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae: Thoopterus) from Sulawesi and adjacent islands, Indonesia

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 27 (2012) | Updated 25 Jan 2017

species differs from T. nigrescens in having larger cranial, dental, mandibular, external measurements, and a wider calcar. In addition, the tail of the new species is absent or reduced to a rudiment, ...

Contribution to the knowledge of Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) XXIII. New fossil species in the genera Ellatrivia and Trivellona

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 27 (2012) | Updated 25 Jan 2017

species in the genera Ellatrivia and Trivell ...

New records of non-marine, non-camaenid gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from islands off the Kimberley coast, Western Australia

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 27 (2012) | Updated 25 Jan 2017

known from the entire Kimberley region. In addition, four species of pulmonate freshwater snails were ...

The status of the critically endangered freshwater crayfish Engaewa pseudoreducta (Crustacea: Parastacidae) in south-western Australia

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 27 (2012) | Updated 25 Jan 2017

records two further populations and presents the first genetic analysis of the species. DNA sequence data support the recognition of E. pseudoreducta as a species and despite the discovery of additional populations there appears no reason to lessen the conservation concern surrounding the species, particularly ...

The Christmas Island blue-tailed skink (Cryptoblepharus egeriae): a survey protocol and an assessment of factors that relate to occupancy and detection

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 27 (2012) | Updated 25 Jan 2017

month) will suffi ciently minimise the likelihood of recording a false absence for the species. The ...

Is the Megamouth Shark susceptible to mega-distortion? Investigating the effects of twenty-two years of fixation and preservation on a large specimen of Megachasma pelagios (Chondrichthyes: Megachasmidae)

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 27 (2012) | Updated 25 Jan 2017

deep water chondrichthyan species, including M. pelagios, possess soft and flabby muscle tissue and a poorly calcifi ed skeleton. Such species are prone to distortion through dehydration due to the fi xation ...

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