An emerging frog diversity hotspot in the northwest Kimberley of Western Australia: another new frog species from the high rainfall zone
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 26 (2010–2011) | Updated 25 Jan 2017
Records 26 Part 2 2011 209 209 Paul Doughty 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(2).2011.209-216 ABSTRACT – Surveys to remote tropical areas of the world have continued to lead to new discoveries of species, including vertebrates. A recent survey in January 2010 to the northwest Kimberley was undertaken to look for ...
A new genus and two new species of groundwater paramelitid amphipods from the Pilbara, Western Australia: a combined molecular and morphological approach
Records 26 Part 2 2011 154 154 Terrie L. Finston, Michael S. Johnson, Stefan M. Eberhard, James S. Cocking, Jane M. McRae, Stuart A. Halse and Brenton Knott 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(2).2011.154-178 ABSTRACT – The Pilbara region of Western Australia hosts a diverse fauna in the groundwater, the majority ...
A new fossil species of Notocypraea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Roe Plains of Australia
Records 26 Part 2 2011 179 179 Dirk Fehse 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(2).2011.179-182 ABSTRACT – A new species of fossil Cypraeidae – Notocypraea goudeyi sp. nov. – hitherto overlooked, is described from the Bioclastic limestones of the Roe Plains, Madura district, Western Australia. The new species ...
New species and new locality records of the nematode genus Labiosimplex (Strongylida: Chabertiidae) from macropodid marsupials in Western Australia
co speciation may have occurred. New species and new locality records of the nematode genus ...
Revision of the Pygmy Spiny-tailed Skinks (Egernia depressa species-group) from Western Australia, with descriptions of three new species
Records 26 Part 2 2011 115 115 Paul Doughty, Luke Kealley and Stephen C. Donnellan 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(2).2011.115-137 ABSTRACT – Egernia depressa is an extremely spiny species of scincid lizard that occurs in several populations with highly variable morphology in western Australia. Using a combination of fixed morphological ...
Geometric morphometric analysis of cranial variation in the Egernia depressa (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) species complex
Records 26 Part 2 2011 138 138 Marci G. Hollenshead 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(2).2011.138-153 ABSTRACT – Few studies have attempted to simultaneously examine geographic, ontogenetic and sexual variation of lizard crania. This study does so with a focus on the Egernia depressa species complex (Pygmy ...
A new species of the lithistid sponge genus Manihinea (Demospongiae: Theonellidae) from Western Australian waters
Records 26 Part 2 2011 109 109 Jane Fromont and Andrzej Pisera 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(2).2011.109-114 ABSTRACT – This report describes a new sponge species, Manihinea lynbeazleyae sp. nov., from the warm temperate marine region of Western Australia (Indian Ocean). The presence of tetraclone desmas, ...
Optimised captive husbandry conditions for the Western Australian ‘Marri Millipede' Antichiropus variabilis (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), with notes on natural history and tissue preservation techniques
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 26 (2010–2011) | Updated 24 Jan 2017
Records 26 Part 1 2010 87 87 Janine M. Wojcieszek, Mark S. Harvey, and Michael G. Rix 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(1).2010.087-093 ABSTRACT – The millipede genus Antichiropus Attems, 1911, is extremely diverse and the majority of species are endemic to south-western Western Australia. Very little is known about the general biology of ...
Tetrapocillon (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Guitarridae) in Australia, with the description of a new species
Records 26 Part 1 2010 70 70 J. Fromont, B. Alvarez, O. Gomez and E. Roberts 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(1).2010.070-086 ABSTRACT – Tetrapocillon patbergquistae sp. nov. is described from Australia. The new species forms thick encrustations to low mounds, it has a soft and fragile texture, and is distinguished from ...
New species of free-living aquatic nematodes from south-western Australia (Nematoda: Axonolaimidae and Desmodoridae)
Records 26 Part 1 2010 42 42 M. Hourston and R.M. Warwick 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(1).2010.042-069 ABSTRACT – Descriptions of 10 new species of free-living aquatic nematodes are presented. Four of the new species belong to the Axonolaimidae, i.e. Ascolaimus australis, Parascolaimus brevisetus, ...