Diacritics – to be or not to be: nomenclature, pronunciation and early history of Faure Island, Shark Bay, Australia
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 26 (2010–2011) | Updated 24 Jan 2017
Records 26 Part 1 2010 94 94 Graham R. Fulton 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(1).2010.094-097 ABSTRACT – The correct spelling, pronunciation and origin of the name Faure Island (pronounced ‘four’) are explained and a critique on spelling and pronunciation of foreign names in English for Australasia is given. ...
Optimised captive husbandry conditions for the Western Australian ‘Marri Millipede' Antichiropus variabilis (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), with notes on natural history and tissue preservation techniques
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, ...
Pauropods (Myriapoda: Pauropoda) from Western Australia, with descriptions of a new family, a new genus and three new species
Decapauropus tenuis Remy is recorded from Western Australia for the first time. KEYWORDS : taxonomy, ...
Two new species of Synsphyronus (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypidae) from southern Western Australian granite landforms
Records 26 Part 1 2010 11 11 Mark S. Harvey 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(1).2010.011-022 ABSTRACT – Two new species of Synsphyronus , S. francesae and S. ellenae , are described from southern Western Australia. These species occur on granite outcrops where they congregate under exfoliating pieces of granite. ...
Eocene molluscs from the Merlinleigh Sandstone, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Records 26 Part 1 2010 23 23 Thomas A. Darragh and George W. Kendrick 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.26(1).2010.023-041 ABSTRACT – Sixteen species of molluscs are described from the Late Eocene Merlinleigh Sandstone, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. The assemblage, a random thanatocoenose, is dominated by bivalves (11 ...