ROBINSON v. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM

Woolley’s Pseudantechinus, P. woolleyae, has remained virtually unstudied in the 30 years since its recognition in 1988 as a species distinct from P. macdonnellensis. It has a wide distribution in arid regions of Western Australia. What little is known of its biology comes largely from studies carried out over the years 1988–91 on one wild-caught female and her offspring, and a few specimens held in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. P. woolleyae is a seasonal breeder and young are born from late July to early October. They mature when ~7 months old. Both males and females are potentially capable of breeding in more than one year. Males have accessory erectile tissue that does not form an appendage on the penis.

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Australian Cerambycidae. VIII. Notes on a collection from the Western Australian Museum, with descriptions of new species

Records of the Australian Museum ◽

10.3853/j.0067-1975.22.1948.589 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 49-63

Author(s):

Keith C. McKeown

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Australian Museum ◽

Western Australian

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Western Australian Museum

Australian Archaeology ◽

10.1080/03122417.1976.12093307 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 49-49

Keyword(s):

Australian Museum ◽

Western Australian

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The Wiluna Meteorite fall, Western Australia—2 September 1967

Mineralogical Magazine ◽

10.1180/minmag.1970.037.292.02 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 37 (292) ◽

pp. 880-887 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

G. J. H. McCall ◽

P. M. Jeffery

Keyword(s):

Western Australia ◽

British Museum ◽

Field Investigation ◽

Reasonable Estimate ◽

Total Recovery ◽

Nickel Iron ◽

Australian Museum ◽

Meteorite Fall ◽

Western Australian

SummaryThe fall of a shower of meteorites numbering several hundred fragments at Wiluna, Western Australia, on the night of 2 September 1967, has been investigated. Although the dispersion ellipse had been largely obscured by removal of fragments before a party of scientists were able to make a field investigation, it has, nevertheless, been possible to make a reasonable estimate of the shower distribution pattern. In spite of this removal of fragments, a number of pieces of meteorite were still found in situ. The bulk of the total recovery is in the collections of the Western Australian Museum, and the physical characteristics of these masses and their petrography is described. In all, some 490 individual fusion-crust coated stones and a large number of broken stony fragments are known to have been recovered. The meteorite is an olivine bronzite chondrite remarkably rich in discrete nodules of nickel iron, up to an inch across, commonly aggregated with troilite. A full chemical analysis of this fresh meteoritic material has been supplied by the British Museum (Natural History).

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Palaemonella dijonesae sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Western Australia

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.15 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2372 (1) ◽

pp. 151-156 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. J. BRUCE

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Western Australia ◽

Type Locality ◽

Sagami Bay ◽

Australian Museum ◽

Holotype Specimen ◽

Single Figure ◽

Western Australian ◽

A New Species

A recent publication by Bruce (2008a) reported the presence of Palaemonella spinulata Yokoya, 1936 in the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. This report noted that “The holotype specimen from Misaki, Japan, is considered to be lost (Holthuis 1952; Bruce 1970; Okuno pers. comm.). The designation of a neotype would appear useful but one from Japanese or nearby waters would be more appropriate than one of the present specimens”. The brief description provided by Yokoya (1936), with only a single figure showing the whole specimen, antennule, antenna, mandible, second maxilliped and posterior telson, is inadequate for comparison with other species of the genus. This deficiency has now been rectified by Hayashi (2009) who has provided a detailed and well illustrated description of P. spinulata and designated a neotype from Sagami Bay, near Misaki, the type locality. This re-description immediately indicated that the Western Australian specimens were not conspecific and they are now described as a new species. The specimens are held in the collections of the Western Australian Museum, Perth.

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