15 Jul 2010Darwin’s Opera House Barnacle - species of the monthCalantica darwini Jones & Hosie, 2009 Described and named only last year, these tiny stalked barnacles are only known from the deep water off the coast of north Western Australia and are easily overlooked due to their small size (<1 cm in height!) and their habit of attaching to the branches of deep sea corals. With a bit of imagination, a cluster of these tiny barnacles resembles the Sydney Opera House, hence their common name.Read more Blog entry Western Australian Museum
Special Projects - Documentary UnitDepartmental resources | Updated 1 decade agoThe documentary unit within the WA Museum films and photographs the Museum's fieldwork and produces a range of photographic galleries and documentaries based on this work. Some of these documentaries can be viewed on the videos page, and some photography can be viewed on our galleries page. To get in contact with the documentary unit, please contact Clay Bryce: clay.bryce@museum.wa.gov.au More information
Aquatic Zoology - peer-reviewed publicationsDepartmental resources | Updated 12 months agoPeer-assessed publications from Aquatic Zoology between 2004-2024. 2011-2024 H.L. O'Neill, W.T. White, J.J. Pogonoski, B. Alvarez, O. Gomez, J.K. Keesing. (2024). Sharks checking in to the sponge hotel: First internal use of sponges of the genus Agelas and family Irciniidae by banded sand catsharks Atelomycterus fasciatus. Journal of Fish Biology 104 (1), 304-309.More information
25 May 2010Marine life of the NorthwestAndrew Hosie Curator, Aquatic Zoology Commercial and tourism interest in the Dampier Archipelago, Northwest Atolls and the Kimberley is at an all time high. Understanding what lives in the Northwest has never been more important. Join Andrew Hosie as he talks about the major biodiversity research that has been conducted by the Museum over the last decade, and the many species that have been discovered that were previously unknown in WA or to science. Read more Video Western Australian Museum
Crustacea SectionCollections | Updated 4 months agoThe Crustacean Collection of the Western Australian Museum comprises marine, freshwater and terrestrial animals, which total over 103,000 specimens. Crustaceans are part of the phylum Arthropoda, which are invertebrates with a hard outer skeleton (cuticle) and jointed legs. This group includes animals such as spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, centipedes, millipedes and of course crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs, prawns and barnacles.More information
Marine Invertebrates SectionCollections | Updated 4 months agoThe Western Australian Museum’s Marine Invertebrates Section comprises specimens from many aquatic animals including Cnidaria, ascidians, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, ctenophores, Foraminifera and others! Although all aquatic groups are collected and studied, this collection mainly focuses on Porifera (sponges), echinoderms (e.g. sea stars) and scleractinian (hard) corals. The Marine Invertebrates Collection comprises approximately 63,000 specimens, covering eleven different phyla. More information
Fish (Ichthyology) SectionCollections | Updated 4 months agoThe Museum’s Fish collection comprises nearly 200,000 specimens from some 280 different families. The collection holds marine and freshwater fish, bony fish and cartilaginous fish (sharks and rays) and includes everything from tiny fish to very large fish. It is primarily focused on Western Australian fishes, but contains extensive specimens from other parts of Australia and from elsewhere in the world, especially our nearest neighbours, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.More information
Worm SectionCollections | Updated 4 months agoThe Western Australian Museum’s Worm Collection comprises specimens from a wide range of unrelated animals commonly referred to as worms owing to their generally long and skinny bodies. There are approximately 42,000 specimens in the collection. The collection includes commonly encountered and well known groups of worms' such as annelids like earthworms, leeches and tube worms, as well as lesser known groups such as the peanut worms (Sipuncula), innkeeper worms (Echiura) and ribbon worms (Nemertea).More information
Mollusc (Malacology) SectionCollections | Updated 4 months agoThe Western Australian Museum's Mollusc Collection represents molluscs collected from Western Australia, other parts of Australia, and from the wider world. The collection consists of approximately 400,000 lots. More information