TWO NEW AND UNUSUAL SPECIES OF THE BEE GENUS LEIOPROCTUS SMITH (HYMENOPTERA COLLETIDAE), WITH NOTES ON THEIR BEHAVIOUR
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 15 (1991–1992) | Updated 11 Feb 2013
Abstract : Two new species of Leioproclus sensu striclo , L. excubitor from Western and Central Australia and L. macmillani from south-western Australia. are described and fIgured. Males of both species have extraordinary antennae. excuhilor having the fI ...
DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF REDFIN PERCH PERCA FLUVIATILIS LINNAEUS AND WESTERN PYGMY PERCH EDELIA VITTATA CASTELNAU IN THE MURRAY RIVER SYSTEM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Introduction : Various workers including Moyle (1976) and Jackson and Williams (1980) have presented evidence that introduced fish species have a negative impact on native species. Fletcher (1986) summarized what is known about the effects of introduced f ...
GROOVED AUSTRALITE FROM THE VICINITY OF CORRIGIN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
a typical rim. The only recorded example of an australite with two rims was found west of Ravensthorpe, 220 ...
FRESHWATER FISHES OF THE GENUS CRATEROCEPHALUS (ARTHERINIDAE) FROM THE SOUTHERN DRAINAGES OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND IRIAN JAYA WITH REFERENCE TO C.S. STERCUSMUSCARUM FROM AUSTRALIA.
Abstract: A new species, Craterocephalus pimatuae , from tributaries of the Purari Rivcr (Papua New Guinea), is described. It differs from all other Papua New Guinea hardyheads osteologically (shape of premaxilla) as well as morphologically (midlateral an ...
FOUR NEW MEMBERS OF THE LERISTA NICHOLLSI COMPLEX (LACERTILIA SCINCIDAE)
Abstract : Lerista kendricki sp. nov. and L. yuna sp. nov, are separated from ' L. nichollsi petersoni ' ( L. petersoni and L. nichollsi are now regarded as full species). l.. ta/pina sp. novo is based on a unique patternless specimen. and L. ma ...
THE IDENTITY OF LYGOSOMA (RHODONA) GOERLINGI AHL, 1935 (SQUAMATA SCINCIDAE)
Introduction : After Ctenotus . the scincid lizard genus Lerista is the most species-rich genus of Australian lizards, with over 50 species currently recognised. Recent work has identified several radiations within the genus, including the L. wilkinsi gro ...
SEASONAL VARIATIONS OF SPERMATOGENESIS AND OF THE SEXUAL SEGMENT OF THE KIDNEY IN THE CARPET PYTHON, MORELIA SPILOTA IMBRICATA (SERPENTESBOIDAE)
Abstract : Testes, vasa deferentla and kidneys of museum specimens of Morelia spilota imbricata from south-western Australia have been histologieally studies. Morelia spilota imbricata shows a prenuptial spermatogenetic pattern. During summer the germial ...
SCRUTTONIA (RUGOSA, CNIDARIA) FROM THE DEVONIAN OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract : Phillipsastrea delicatula Hill. 1936. from probably the early Frasnian (early Late Devonian) of the Lennard Shelf, Western Australia. is assigned to the cosmopolitan rugose coral genus Scruttonia . Its occurrence there supports the previously r ...
REDESCRIPTION OF AULACTINIA VERATRA N. COMB. (CNIDOPU VERATA) (COELENTERATA ACTINIARIA) FROM AUSTRALIA.
Abstract : The actinian described as Actinia veratra Drayton, 1846, and currently referred to as Cnidopus veratra , belongs to the genus Aulactinia . Discrepancies in the literature, particularly concerning ectodermal specializations of the column, led to ...
PSEUDANTECHINUS MIMULUS (THOMAS, 1906) (MARSUPIALIA, DASYURIDAE) REDISCOVERY AND REDESCRIPTION.
Abstract : Before the collection in 1967 of three specimens of Pseudanteehinus mimulus from North I., Sir Edward Pellew Group, Northern Territory (c. 15'37'S, 136'53'E), the species was known only from the holotype collected 62 years e ...