New aquatic Oniscidea (Crustacea: Isopoda) from groundwater calcretes of Western Australia
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Updated 14 Mar 2017
ABSTRACT – Three blind new species of Haloniscus Chilton (Scyphacidae s.1.) from groundwater calcretes in Western Australia are described: H. tomentosus, H. longiantennatus and H. stilifer . A diagnosis of the genus and a key to the species are proVided, ...
Two new cave-dwelling harvestmen from Western Australia (Arachnida: Opiliones: Assamiidae and "Phalangodidae")
ABSTRACT – Two new species of laniatorid harvestmen have been collected in the biologically significant caves of the Cape Range Peninsula, Western Australia. Dampetnls isolatus sp. nov. (Assamiidae) has reduced eyes but is otherwise not especially adapted ...
Copepods from ground waters of Western Australia, VI. Cyclopidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Yilgarn Region and the Swan Coastal Plain
Kiefer, 1928 and Microcyclops varicans (G. O. Sars, 1863). Metacyclops fiersi sp. novo was recorded from ...
Cave fauna monitoring and management at Ida Bay, Tasmania
ABSTRACT – The Ida Bay karst in southern Tasmania contains a diverse and significant cave fauna. Conservation management of the cave fauna has involved: 1, legislative protection of rare and threatened species; 2, protection of sensitive habitats within c ...
Prionospio thalanji sp. nov. (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from an anchialine cave, Cape Range, north-west Western Australia
Western Australia. This is the first record of a cavernicolous spionid and is one of the few aquatic ...
Maintenance of karst biodiversity, with an emphasis upon Australian populations
ABSTRACT – Biospeleology – the study of cave-dwelling organisms – has long been recognised as making a major contribution to the understanding of both evolutionary and adaptive processes and community ecology. ...
Stygofauna diversity and distribution in Eastern Australian cave and karst areas
ABSTRACT – This paper reviews the diversity and distribution of the stygofauna of Eastern Australia on a regional basis. Most of the stygofauna is concentrated in the highland karsts of New South Wales and Tasmania. Two hundred and thirty-eight taxa are p ...
Groundwater calcrete aquifers in the Australian arid zone: the context to an unfolding plethora of stygal biodiversity
ABSTRACT – The Western Shield of Australia has been above sea level since the Palaeozoic. It is incised by ancient palaeovalieys now containing groundwater calcretes that are found throughout much of arid Australia. The calcretes are deposited, owing to s ...
Subterranean biodiversity in New South Wales: from rags to riches
ABSTRACT – The karst areas of New South Wales, Australia, support a diverse invertebrate subterranean fauna with up to 422 taxa recognised to date, of which 83 are obligate subierranean taxa. The terrestrial fauna is dominated by arachnids and insects and ...
Allozyme variation in the troglobitic millipede Stygiochiropus communis (Diplopoda: Paradoxosomatidae) from arid tropical Cape Range, northwestern Australia: population structure and implications for the management of the region
ABSTRACT – The millipede genus Stygiochiropus is endemic to Cape Range in the arid tropics of northwestern Australia. The genus is restricted to caves throughout the range and is highly troglomorphic. Millipedes collected from 36 caves were examined for g ...