Reassessment of the Early Cretaceous plesiosaur Cimoliasaurus maccoyi Etheridge, 1904 (Reptilia : Sauropterygia) from White Cliffs, New South Wales

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin P. Kear
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
New South ◽  
Cervical Vertebrae ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Family ◽  
Nomina Dubia ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Cimoliasaurus maccoyi Etheridge, 1904 is a poorly known plesiosauroid from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian) opal-bearing deposits (Doncaster Member, Wallumbilla Formation) of White Cliffs, New South Wales. Characters used to define the taxon are found to be either uninformative beyond higher taxonomic levels, ontogenetically related or misinterpreted, suggesting that C. maccoyi is a nomen dubium. Provisional referral of the C. maccoyi remains to Elasmosauridae gen. et sp. indet. may be warranted on the basis the derived morphology of its cervical vertebrae. A review of 'cimoliasaurian' taxa described from the Callovian to Maastrichtian of Europe, North and South America, New Zealand and Australia indicates that all can either be reassigned or represent nomina dubia. The taxonomic status of Cimoliasauridae is also tenuous, with the family established on largely non-diagnostic characters.

A revision of the Heatherellidae (Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata) with a new genus and two new species from Australasia

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4434 (3) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
OWEN D. SEEMAN ◽  
MARIA MINOR ◽  
MICHELLE R. BAKER ◽  
DAVID EVANS WALTER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The North ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species

The discovery of a new genus of Heatherellidae in New Zealand has led us to revise this enigmatic family and its constituent genera. Aheatherella n. gen., based on A. mira n. sp. from the North Island of New Zealand, lacks some of the derived character states that link the Australian Heatherella, most notably the lack of sexual dimorphism in the dorsal shields and in the presence of peritremes in adult Aheatherella. Heatherella osleri n. sp. is described from New South Wales, extending the distribution of this genus beyond Queensland. New collection records of H. callimaulos and a key to the genera and species of the family are provided. We propose that the Heatherellidae—previously placed in its own cohort outside the Gamasina—are best considered a superfamily of gamasine mites within the subcohort Epicriiae. 

Metschnikowia continentalisvar.borealis,Metschnikowia continentalisvar.continentalis, andMetschnikowia hibisci, new heterothallic haploid yeasts from ephemeral flowers and associated insects

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc-André Lachance ◽  
Carlos A Rosa ◽  
William T Starmer ◽  
Birgit Schlag-Edler ◽  
J Stuart F. Baker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Sequence Similarity ◽  
Large Deletion ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
North American Population ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Family ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Several strains of three new taxa of haploid heterothallic yeasts have been isolated from various ephemeral flowers and associated insects in North and South America and Australia. Metschnikowia continentalis comprises two varieties and is a close relative of Metschnikowia hawaiiensis. Like the latter, it produces giant ascospores and lives in association with the insects that colonize flowers of the family Convolvulaceae. These species exhibit an unusual asymmetrical mating, but their rare asci are sterile. The varieties of M. continentalis undergo unlimited mating, but ascospores are rarely formed. Metschnikowia continentalis var. continentalis was isolated in central Brazil and is thought to occur across South America.Metschnikowia continentalis var. borealis was recovered in the Great Lakes area and may represent a North American population. Metschnikowia hibisci was found in the flowers and insects of various Hibiscus species in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland but appeared to be absent in members of the Convolvulaceae growing in the same areas. The latter forms intermediate-sized ascospores and one of its mating types forms conjugation tubes in the presence of cells of other Metschnikowia species. The three taxa share with M. hawaiiensis a large deletion in the D2 region of their large ribosomal DNA subunit, but in M. hibisci, the variable domain of the D2 region shares little, if any, sequence similarity with others. The type cultures are as follows:M. continentalis var. continentalis strains UFMG96-173 (h+, CBS8429) and UFMG96-179 (h-, CBS8430); M. continentalis var. borealis strains UWO(PS)96-104.2 (h+, CBS 8431) and UWO(PS)96-101.1 (h-, CBS8432); and M. hibisci strains UWO(PS)95-797.2 (h+, CBS8433) and UWO(PS)95-805.1 (h-, CBS8434).Key words: Metschnikowia, yeast, Convolvulaceae, Hibiscus, geographic speciation.

Revision of Rhytidosporum (Pittosporaceae)

1999 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 689 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. W. Cayzer ◽  
M. D. Crisp ◽  
I. R. H. Telford
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Separate Genus ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time ◽  
Small Genus

As part of a revision of the family Pittosporaceae in Australia, a cladistic analysis was undertaken to resolve the phylogeny of Rhytidosporum and thereby clarify the taxonomic status of this small genus. Rhytidosporum is confirmed as a separate genus, and five species are now recognised: R. alpinum, R. diosmoides, R. inconspicuum, R. procumbens and R. prostratum. Rhytidosporum inconspicuum, found in subalpine areas mainly in Victoria and Tasmania, is described for the first time. Rhytidosporum diosmoides, which ranges from central New South Wales to southern Queensland, is reinstated at species level.

Revision of the Australian species of Agrotera Schrank (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4362 (2) ◽  
pp. 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAI CHEN ◽  
MARIANNE HORAK ◽  
XICUI DU ◽  
DANDAN ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Two New Species

The genus Agrotera Schrank, 1802 is revised for Australia and the generic definition is refined based on the male genitalia. The genera Leucinodella Strand, 1918 stat. rev. with L. leucostola (Hampson, 1896) comb. nov., Nistra Walker, 1859 stat. rev. with N. coelatalis Walker, 1859 comb. rev., Sagariphora Meyrick, 1894 stat. rev. with S. magnificalis (Hampson, 1893) comb. nov., and Tetracona Meyrick, 1884 stat. rev. with T. amathealis (Walker, 1859) comb. rev. and T. pictalis Warren, 1896 comb. rev. are removed from synonymy with Agrotera, as they lack the synapomorphies of Agrotera. Two new species, Agrotera genuflexa sp. nov. from Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales, and A. longitabulata sp. nov. from Queensland, are described. The taxonomic status of the Australian species of Agrotera is discussed, and a key to all species, based on males, is provided. The adults and genitalia of the new species and some related species are figured. 

Podospora excentrica. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Minter
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
South America ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New South ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
South Wales

Abstract A description is provided for Podospora excentrica. Some information on its associated organisms and substrata, dispersal and transmission, habitats and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (South America (Venezuela), Atlantic Ocean (Portugal (Madeira)), Australasia (Australia (New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia)), New Zealand, Europe (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK)).

A new Australian record of a Parajapidae (Diplura): a potential pest of wheat

Soil Research ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 657
Author(s):  
Penelope Greenslade ◽  
Yun-Xia Luan
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Data ◽  
New South ◽  
Agricultural Crops ◽  
Deep Soil ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Potential Pest ◽  
North And South America ◽  
First Time ◽  
North And South

Parajapyx isabellae (Grassi, 1886) is recorded for the first time from Australia. It is a cosmopolitan soil species found in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Womersley last studied Australian Parajapygidae 80 years ago, listing a single endemic species for the genus Parajapyx Silvestri, 1903, sensu stricta. In 2017, an unidentified Parajapyx was found in deep soil under wheat in winter, spring and summer at Harden, New South Wales, in a long-term tillage trial. It was most abundant in the minimum tillage/stubble retained plots in soil below 5 cm but rarely observed in the conventionally tilled/stubble burned plots. The same field experiment was sampled five times using the same methods over 3 years from 1993–95 but no specimens of Diplura were collected. The specimens were identified as P. isabellae using morphology and confirmed with the DNA barcoding sequence data. Most species of Parajapygidae are carnivores feeding on small arthropods but there are records from North America, Europe and Hawaii of P. isabellae feeding on roots of wheat and other agricultural crops. We provide here illustrations of species P. isabellae so that crop scientists in Australia are aware of the potential pest and can identify it. Sequence data indicate that the population may have originated from two sources.

Stagonospora meliloti. [Distribution map].

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Stagonospora meliloti (Lasch) Petrak. Hosts: Medicago, Melilotus and Trifolium species. Information is given on the geographical distribution in ASIA, Iran, Japan, Korea, Turkey, AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA, Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, SA, Vic., WA, Tas, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, EUROPE, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, England, Scotland, USSR, Estonia, Lithuania, Yugoslavia, NORTH AMERICA, Canada, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, USA, SOUTH AMERICA, Brazil, Chile, Colombia.

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