LEPIDOGALAXIAS SALAMANDROIDES MEES – A REDESCRIPTION, WITH NATURAL HISTORY NOTES
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 11 (1983–1984) | Updated 14 May 2013
Abstract Lepidogalaxias salamandroides Mees is redescribed, knowledge of its relationship reviewed, sexual dimorphism discussed, and specializations related to its habits and habitats reported. The eyes are adnate, lacking eye muscles and a curious abilit ...
HABITATS OF THE HEART URCHINS PROTENASTER AND RHYNOBRISSUS
sadly lacking; they are recorded for only 13 heart urchin genera (Smith 1980). The only information recorded on Protenaster is that is has been collected from a depth of 6 fathoms (Hall 1904). Our knowledge of the habitat of Rhynobrissus is only marginally better. Clark (1917) recorded that specimens were ...
AN ABORIGINAL ENGRAVING SITE IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract This report extends the known range of Australian Aboriginal rock engravings to the extreme south west corner of Western Australia. The site and the local geology are described with reference to the possible age of the engravings< Consideratio ...
ADDITIONS TO THE VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF BENDERING NATURE RESERVE
testes in October. Twenty-three reptile species are now recorded from Bendering Nature Reserve and reproductive data are available for 16 species. A total of 71 species of birds are now recorded for Bendering Nature Reserve and the adjacent farmland; this is little different from the 73 species recorded from the ...
A REVIEW OF THE MANGROVE KINGFISHER, HALCYON CHLORIS (BODDAERT) IN AUSTRALIA, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Two subspecies of the Mangrove Kingfisher are recognized for Australia, namely Halcyon chloris sordida from Kimberley (Western Australia), Northern Territory, Queensland and northern New South Wales, and Halcyon chloris pilbara subsp. novo from the Pilbar ...
A NEW CTENOTUS (LACERTILIA SCINCIDAE) FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract The new species, C. zastictus , is a member of the C. atlas species-group. It is confined to a sandplain near the mid-west coast of Western Australia. ...
TWO NEW ACARID HYPOPI (ACACI, ASTIGMATA) FROM THE FAECES OF THE NUMBAT MYRMECOBIUS FASCIATUS WATERHOUSE (MARSUPIALIA, MYRMECOBIIDAE)
Abstract Cosmoglyphus angustus sp. nov., C. angustus distinctus subsp. nov. and Australhypopus flagellifer gen. et sp. nov., are described as hypopi (heteromorphic deutonymphs) from the faeces of the Numbat or Banded Anteater in Western Australia. ...
REVISION OF THE LERISTA NICHOLLSI COMPLEX (LACERTILIA SCINCIDAE)
Abstract The Lerista nichollsi complex, designated herein, is confined to the arid and semiarid mid-west and lower north-west of Western Australia. It comprises L. connivens Storr, L. nichollsi petersoni Storr, L. nichollsi nichollsi (Loveridge), L. unidu ...
RE-EXAMINATION OF THE QUANBUN LOCAL FAUNA, A LATE CENOZOIC VERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract Re-examination of a collection of fossil bones and teeth from Quanbun Station in the south-western Kimberley, Western Australia, has raised the possibility that the fossils may be Pliocene in age. If so, these bones represent the oldest described ...
LIVING AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF THE ECHINOID PERICOSMUS (SPATANGOIDA PERICOSMIDAE)
Abstract Three species of Pericosmus are described from Australian waters. P. porphyrocardius sp. nov. is described on the basis of a suite of specimens from the North-West Shelf and one specimen from north-east Queensland. The two other described species ...