scholarly journals Parasitic Wasps of the Proctotrupoid Complex: a New Family From Australia and a Key to World Families (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea Sensu Lato).

1985 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 761 ◽  
Author(s):  
ID Naumann ◽  
L Masner
Keyword(s):  
Sister Group ◽  
Parasitic Wasps ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
New Family ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The World ◽  
Biological Characters ◽  
South Eastern Australia

A new family Peradeniidae is proposed for Peradenia, gen. nov., comprising P, clavipes, sp. nov. and P. micranepsia, sp. nov. from south-eastern Australia. Peradeniidae is assigned to the proctotrupoid complex of parasitic wasps, as the sister group of the Heloridae. Extant proctotrupoid families of the world are compared with respect to 43 morphological and biological characters, and an illustrated key to families is provided.

Xenosellidae, a new family of Janiroidea (Asellota: Isopoda:  Crustacea), for Xenosella coxospinosa gen. nov., sp. nov.,  from the marine bathyal of eastern Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1085 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN JUST
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
New Family ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Similar Body ◽  
South Eastern Australia

A new genus and species of janiroidean Asellota, Xenosella coxospinosa, is described from the mid-bathyal slope off the coast of south-eastern Australia. Following a comparison of the new species to several families of broadly similar body shape, with emphasis on monotypic Pleurocopidae, a new family, Xenosellidae, is proposed for the new species. In the course of comparing relevant taxa, the current placements of Prethura Kensley in the Santiidae and Salvatiella Müller in the Munnidae are rejected. The two genera are considered to be incertae sedis within the Asellota superfamily Janiroidea pending further studies.

Taxonomic revision of buchanosteoid placoderms (Arthrodira) from the Early Devonian of south-eastern Australia and Arctic Russia

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Long ◽  
E. Mark-Kurik ◽  
G. C. Young
Keyword(s):  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Lateral Plate ◽  
Early Devonian ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Skull Roof ◽  
New Family ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Marginal Plates ◽  
Severnaya Zemlya ◽  
South Eastern Australia

The ‘buchanosteid’ placoderms are best known from the Early Devonian of Australia, but also occur in China, Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East. Here we rediagnose the type species Buchanosteus confertituberculatus (Hills 1936) from the type locality at Buchan, Victoria, in the light of new material of both head and trunk shields. The superfamily Buchanosteoidea Denison, 1978 is redefined to unite taxa that share a similar skull roof with separate rostro-pineal (ethmoid) bone, and postethmoid skull pattern characterised by a large trapezoidal nuchal, strap-like short and broad preorbitals, large subrectangular centrals, small postorbitals not contacting the paranuchals, and large, elongate marginal plates. The Family Buchanosteidae is redefined on skull roof and parasphenoid shape and trunk armour features as a monotypic family within the Buchanosteoidea. A new family (Parabuchanosteidae nov.) includes taxa with the posterior lateral plate overlapping the anterior dorsolateral plate externally. Two new buchanosteids are described, Richardosteus barwickorum gen. et sp. nov., from Burrinjuck, south-eastern Australia, and Urvaspis lithuanica gen. et sp. nov., from Severnaya Zemlya, Russia.

Nivicolous myxomycetes from alpine areas of south-eastern Australia

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven L. Stephenson ◽  
John D. L. Shadwick
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
South Eastern Australia

Nivicolous myxomycetes were collected from alpine areas of south-eastern Australia during the period of middle to late October 2004. Most collections came from the high-elevation area around Mount Kosciuszko, the highest peak on the continent at 2228 m, in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, and additional collections were obtained from two areas, Mount Buller and Mount Hotham, in the Victorian Alps of northern Victoria. Approximately 300 collections were obtained during a period of 2 weeks, including species such as Diderma alpinum, Didymium dubium, Lamproderma ovoideum, Physarum albescens and P. alpinum, not previously known to occur in mainland Australia. Lamproderma maculatum and L. zonatum were collected for the first time in the southern hemisphere, and another species of Lamproderma was described as new to science in a previous paper. In contrast to most other areas of the world where nivicolous myxomycetes have been studied, species of Diderma have been represented poorly among the collections from Australia.

Soil Surface Lichens in Arid and Subarid South-Eastern Australia. I. Introduction and Floristics

1972 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 197 ◽  
Author(s):  
RW Rogers ◽  
RT Lange
Keyword(s):  
Soil Surface ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The World ◽  
South Eastern Australia

Lichens on soils in Australia have been neglected until recently. This paper describes a study area of nearly 1 million km2 in south-eastern Australia, and the methods used to determine the lichens found on the soil surfaces in that area. In all, 343 locations were examined, 227 of which had soil surface lichens. From the range of lichens encountered a total of 42 taxa were delimited, and in 36 cases ascribed to previously described species or complexes; the remaining six were either un- described, or depauperate forms which could not be placed. The world phytogeographic implications of this study are discussed.

Distribution of poycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments from estuaries of south-eastern Australia

1981 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Bagg ◽  
D Smith ◽  
WA Maher
Keyword(s):  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Major Contributor ◽  
Minimum Concentration ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The World ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
Urban Activity ◽  
Yarra River ◽  
South Eastern Australia

Concentrations (�g/kg dried sediment) of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) and perylene have been measured in sediments taken from three locations in south-eastern Australia: a highly urbanized estuary (Yarra River), a marine bay (Corio Bay), and an estuary remote from urban activity (Mallacoota Inlet). Most concentrations of B[a]P lay in the range 200-800 �g/kg and these values are comparable to values found in similar situations in other parts of the world. The minimum concentration of B[a]P observed was 20�g/kg in Mallacoota Inlet; the maximum concentration was 6800 �g/kg at one location in a tributary of the Yarra River where the sediment was visibly contaminated with oil. The ratio of B[a]P:perylene was 1.0-2.0 in all three areas and this ratio is significantly lower than for aerosols in the Melbourne atmosphere, suggesting that deposition of aerosol is not the major contributor to PAH in sediments.

Vicmusia duplocoxa, gen. et sp.nov., (Crustacea : Amphipoda : Gammaridea) of the new family Vicmusiidae from Australian upper bathyal waters

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 925 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Just
Keyword(s):  
South Eastern ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
New Family ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
South Eastern Australia

Vicmusia duplocoxa, gen, et sp. nov., from a depth of 400 m in the Bass Strait Canyon off south-eastern Australia is described. The species possesses three unique apomorphisms: pereonal and pleonal tergites are divided laterally (one dorsal and two lateral subplates to each tergite); coxal plate 2 is strongly reduced among long plates 1, 3 and 4; mouthparts are produced into a setose forward-pointing funnel. The species cannot readily be placed in any of the currently diagnosed gammaridean superfamilies or families, so the new family Vicmusiidae is erected but for now is left as Gammaridea, incertae sedis.

Gondwanan groundwater: subterranean connections of Australian phreatoicidean isopods (Crustacea) to India and New Zealand

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
George D. F. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Surface Waters ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Monophyletic Clade ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
South Eastern Australia

Phreatoicidea Stebbing, 1893 live in freshwaters of Gondwana: Australia, South Africa, India and New Zealand. Many of these isopods have a subterranean lifestyle. Parsimony analysis of morphological data of generic exemplars and a Triassic fossil was used to explore the timing of this habitat adaption. The monophyly of the Hypsimetopidae Nicholls, 1943, including blind taxa Hyperoedesipus Nicholls & Milner, 1923 (Western Australia), Nichollsia Chopra and Tiwari, 1950 (Ganges Plain, India) and Phreatoicoides Sayce, 1900 (Tasmania and Victoria) was strongly supported. Crenisopus Wilson and Keable, 1999 (Kimberleys, Western Australia) and the PonderellidaeWilson & Keable, 2004 (Queensland mound springs) may be sister to hypsimetopids. Blind Phreatoicidae found only in south-eastern Australia and in New Zealand were also monophyletic. The hypogean habitat, blindness, fossil and plate tectonic evidence were mapped on the cladogram to estimate timing of this adaptation. A subterranean adaptation before 130 million years ago was supported for hypsimetopids. Phreatoicus Chilton, 1891 and Neophreatoicus Nicholls, 1944 (hypogean in New Zealand) were in a monophyletic clade with epigean Phreatoicidae, Crenoicus Nicholls, 1944 (south-eastern Australia) and Notamphisopus Nicholls, 1943 (New Zealand). Blindness in epigean taxa is consistent with recolonisation of surface waters from underground refuges. Because Crenoicus is sister-group to the New Zealand clade, and because overseas dispersal between Australia and New Zealand is unlikely, the minimum age for these blind phreatoicids is ~80 million years. This evidence is consistent with a subterranean freshwater fauna surviving the presumed Oligocene inundation of New Zealand.

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