GONADAL CYCLES OF THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN LONG-NECKED TURTLES CHELODINA OBLONGA AND CHELODINA STEINDACHNERI (CHELONIA CHELIDAE)
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 14 (1988–1990) | Updated 27 Feb 2013
Abstract : Seasonal changes of testis volume, spermatogenesis, follicular development, and oviducal eggs for preserved specimens of Chelodina oblonga and Chelodina steindachneri are reported. Testis cycles of both species show a typical temperate zone che ...
AUSTRALITES FROM MOUNT REMARKABLE STATION AND ADJOINING PARTS OF YERILLA STATION, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract : Collections of australites totalling 926 specimens found on Mount Remarkable and Yerilla Stations in the semi-arid interior of Western Australia have been examined. The more representative units within those collections totalling 476 australite ...
A NEW SPECIES OF DIPLODACTYLUS (LACERTILIA GEKKONIDDAE) FROM NORTHERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract : The new species, Diplodactylus jeanae , was formerly confused with D. taeniatus , which it replaces in the northern arid zone of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. D taeniatus is redescribed. ...
A NEW SPECIES OF CALANOID COPEPOD FROM SHARK BAY, WESTERN AUTRALIA
Abstract : A new species of calanoid copepod, Centropages halinus from hypersaline waters of Shark Bay, Western Australia is described. The new species is most closely related to C. orsinii . which also occurs in Shark Bay. ...
A NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN CRATEROCEPHALUS (PISCES ATHERINIDAE) AND REDESCRIPTION OF FOUR OTHER SPECIES
Abstract : A new species of hardyhead, Craterocephalus munroi , from estuarine reaches of the Bynoe, Norman and Nicholson Rivers, southern Gulf of Carpentaria, is described. Morphologically the new species appears to be most closely related to C. marjoria ...
TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE WATER MITE GENUS ASPIDIOBATES LUNDBLAD FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA (ACARINA HYGROBATIDAE)
Abstract : The new species Aspidiobates pilbara and A. wittenoom are described from material collected in the Hamersley Ranges, northern Western Australia. A revised key to the Australian members of the genus is presented and evolution within the genus is ...
THREE NEW DIPLODACTYLUS (LACERTILIA GEKKONIDAE) FROM THE ARID ZONE OF AUSTRALIA
Abstract : The new taxa are D. immaculatus from the Northern Territory and Queensland and D. granariensis rex and D. kenneallyi from Western Australia, D. pulcher is transferred to the D. conspicillatus group, which is redefined. ...
THE SUBSPECIES OF DIPLODACTYLUS SPINIGERUS (LACERTILIA GEKKONIDAE)
Abstract : The gecko Diplodactylus spinigerus is endemic to southern Western Australia. It is divisible into two subspecies: D. s. spinigerus Gray of the west coast and D. s. inornatus subsp. nov. from further east. ...
LARVAL DEVELOPMENT OF LESUEURINA SP. (TELEOSTEI LEPTOSCOPIDAE) WITH NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE LARVAE IN A SOUTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ESTUARY.
Abstract : The larval development of the leptoscopid. Lesueurina sp., is described and illustrated from material obtained from the lower Swan Estuary. in south-western Australia. The larvae examined (2.90-12.04 mm) are pelagic. have an elongate. slender b ...
CLARIFICATION OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GALAXIELLA NIGROSTRIATA (SHIPWAY, 1953) AND GALAXIELLA MUNDA MCDOWALL, 1978 (PISCES GALAXIIDAE) FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Abstract : Galaxiella nigrostriata and G. munda are sympatarie speeies that are difficult to distinguish due to their similarity and to contradictions in previously published diagnoses. Additional more relia ble characters are as follows: the dorsal fin o ...