A REVIEW OF THE MANGROVE KINGFISHER, HALCYON CHLORIS (BODDAERT) IN AUSTRALIA, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 11 (1983–1984) | Updated 14 May 2013
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 SPECIES OF THE PROSOBRANCH GASTROPOD GLACIDORBIS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE BIOGEOGRAPHY OF SOUTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract Minute snails found in streams of the Darling Range, Western Australia, are described here as a new species, Glacidorbis occidentalis . Glacidorbis has a southern distribution, occurring in south-eastern Australia, Tasmania, and southern Chile. I ...
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GOBIESOCID FISH FROM SOUTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA. WITH A KEY TO THE SPECIES OF ASPASMOGASTER
originalIy described from New South Wales is recorded for the first time from Tasmania, Victoria, South ...
BIONOMICS OF A POLLEN-COLLECTING WASP, PARAGIA TRICOLOR (HYMENOPTERA VESPIDAE MASARINAE), IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF BEES IN THE GENUS CTENOCOLLETES (HYMENOPTERA STENOTRITIDAE)
Abstract Ctenocolletes consists of chiefly vernal species which forage at plants in several families. Some species appear to prefer particular kinds of nectar and pollen but not necessarily of the same plant genera. Males either patrol flowers in search o ...
A NEW GENUS OF MITE (ACARI ACARIDAE) PHORETIC ON BEES (CTENOCOLLETES) IN AUSTRALIA
Abstract A new genus, Ctenocolletacarus , and three new species, C. longirostris, C. grandior and C. brevirostris , are described from hypopial nymphs from three species of bees ( Ctenocolletes , Stenotritidae) from Western Australia. ...
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 ...