OBSERVATIONS ON THE LIGHT-SENSITIVE TUBE FEET OF THE BURROWING ECHINOID PROTENASTER AUSTRALIS (GRAY, 1851)
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 11 (1983–1984) | Updated 14 May 2013
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A NEW SPECIES OF FRESHWATER GRUNTER (PISCES TERAPONIDAE) FROM NEW GUINEA
Abstract A new species of teraponid, Hephaestus lineallls , is described from six specimens collected from freshwater streams on the Vogelkop Peninsula, Irian Jaya. It is closely related to H. habbemai (Weber) from south-central New Ciuinea and H. trimacu ...
A REDESCRIPTION OF THE RARE ECHINOID TAIMANAWA MORTENSENI HENDERSON AND FELL (SPATANGOIDA BRISSIDAE)
Abstract The only living species of the brissid Taimanawa , T. mortenseni Henderson and Fell, 1969, is redescribed from the first known complete specimen, collected recently from the outer North-West Shelf, Western Australia. Previously the species was kn ...
SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN SCOTEANAX AND SCOTEREPENS (CHIROPTERA VESPERTILIONADAE), WITH REMARKS ON RELATIONSHIPS TO OTHER NYCTICEIINI
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 12 (1985–1986) | Updated 26 Apr 2013
Abstract: Classical and numerical taxonomic approaches based on morphology and utilising electrophoretic information have been applied to clarify the status of Australian species hitherto placed in the genus Nycticeius . Eight named forms have been reduce ...
REVISION OF THE MONACANTHID FISH GENUS BRACHALUTERES
Four species of the monacanthid genus Brachaluteres are recognised: B. jacksonianus (Quoy and Gaimard) from southern Australia; B. taylori Woods from Queensland, Lord Howe Island, New Guinea and the Marshall Islands; B. ulvarum Jordan and Snyder from Japa ...
NEW SCLERACTINIA FROM AUSTRALIAN CORAL REEFS
Abstract: Eleven new species of Scleractinia are described. These belong to ten different genera, one of which ( Australomussa ) is new, another of which ( Hydnophora ) has been given a new taxonomic position (in the Merulinidae). A new merulinid genus, P ...
BIOLOGY AND ZOOGEOGRAPHY OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WHEATBELT
province does not accord particularly well with most distributions recorded; a much smaller region ...
AN ANALYSIS OF BENTHIC MARINE INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES IN SUBTIDAL SEAGRASS AND SAND HABITATS IN SHARK BAY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract: The fauna of three habitats (Posidonia and Amphibolis seagrass beds and open sand) on a subtidal sandflat off Monkey Mia, Shark Bay, Western Australia (25 0 48'S, 113°43'E), was investigated. The fauna of the seagrass beds was diverse ...
A NEW SPECIES OF BOECKELLA (COPEPODA CALANOIDA) FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AND COMMENTS ON TWO OTHER CONGENERS
Boeckella shieli sp. novo is described from a temporary freshwater pool near Esperance. It has a pseudoche1ate extremity on the exopod of the male fifth right leg as in B. pseudochelae Searle and B. geniculata Bayly. The probable synanthropic introduction ...
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF PLESIOPID FISH FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA AND THE CENTRAL-SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
Abstract: Steeneichthys plesiopsus is described as a new genus and species on the basis of 12 specimens collected between 1974 and 1983 at Rowley Shoals (off north-western Australia in the eastern Indian Ocean), Fiji Islands, and American Samoa. The speci ...