scholarly journals A new species of death adder (Acanthophis: Serpentes: Elapidae) from north-western Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4007 (3) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON T. MADDOCK ◽  
RYAN J. ELLIS ◽  
Paul DOUGHTY ◽  
LAWRENCE A. SMITH ◽  
WOLFGANG WÜSTER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

Second representative of the order Misophrioida (Crustacea, Copepoda) from Australia challenges the hypothesis of the Tethyan origin of some anchialine faunas

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2059 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC ◽  
STEFAN M. EBERHARD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Apical Seta ◽  
Aquatic Fauna ◽  
The North ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
Coastal Margin ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Swimming Leg

A new species of the genus Speleophria is described from a cave in the Nullarbor region in southern Western Australia. Its congeners include species from the Balearics, Croatia, Bermuda, Yucatan peninsula and north-western Western Australia, all considered to be Tethyan relicts. However, the discovery of the new speleophriid in the Nullarbor region has important biogeographic and ecological implications. From the biogeographic perspective, it either suggests dispersal as the process determining the current distribution pattern of the aquatic fauna found on the Roe Plains or significantly extends the Tethyan track across Australia, from the north-western coastal margin of the continent to the southern coastal margin. From an ecologic perspective, the new speleophriid suggests the possible existence of anchialine habitats in southern Australia. Speleophria nullarborensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from its four congeners by its plesiomorphic 3-segmented endopod of the first swimming leg (2-segmented in other species) and unusually long innermost apical seta on the caudal ramus. Another character that easily distinguishes our new species, and seems to be an autapomorphic feature, is its constricted preanal somite.

An overview of the genus Radiospongilla (Porifera, Spongillida) with description of a new species from Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4834 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-80
Author(s):  
R. PRONZATO ◽  
R. MANCONI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Outer Layer ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Freshwater Sponges ◽  
Biogeographic Pattern ◽  
Biogeographic Regions ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

A new species of freshwater sponges is described from Australia. The new species Radiospongilla fungosa is characterized by the following traits ‘megascleres microspiny stout oxeas with scattered, small, simple spines except tips’, and by having ‘gemmuloscleres long, slim, spiny strongyles with scattered simple spines and hooked spines clustered at tips’, ‘gemmular theca with 2 layers of gemmuloscleres radially and tangentially arranged’, ‘pneumatic layer irregularly filamentous network (near inner layer) and thin laminae irregularly arranged (towards outer layer)’. We discuss the relationships of the new species to other members of the genus both from Australia, particularly North-Western Australia, and from other biogeographic regions on the basis of diagnostic morphotraits. An overview on the taxonomy, biogeographic pattern and phylogeny of the genus is supplied and updated to present, together with an updated identification key for Australia species. The diagnosis of the genus Radiospongilla is emended. 

Acacia valida (Fabaceae, Mimosoideae), a new species from Western Australia and the Northern Territory, as well as the typification and revision of A. Pachyphloia

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
MD Tindale ◽  
PG Kodela
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

Acacia valida, a new species of Acacia subgenus Acacia from the northern parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australia is described and illustrated. A lectotype is selected for Acacia pachyphloia and two subspecies are recognised. Acacia pachyphloia subsp. pachyphloia occurs in the Northern Territory and north Western Australia, and A. pachyphloia subsp. brevipirznula subsp. nov. occurs in north Western Australia.

Acacia paula (Fabaceae: Group of A. stigmatophylla), a new species from north-western Australia

1990 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
MD Tindale ◽  
SJ Davies
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

Acacia paula, a new species belonging to the A. stigmatophylla group (which bridges Acacia sect. Plurineves and sect.Juliflorae) is described and illustrated. The possible affinities of A. paula are discussed.

Glycine pindanica (Fabaceae, Phaseolae), a New Species from West Kimberley, Western Australia

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 371 ◽  
Author(s):  
MD Tindale ◽  
LA Craven
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Western Side ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Glycine pindanica, is described from the western side of Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Its distribution is mapped. A key is provided to the species of Glycine in north-western Australia. G. pindanica and the closely allied G. hirticaulis Tindale & Craven form a small group of non-rhizomatous, non-stoloniferous species with digitately trifoliate leaves, linear leaflets and hairs having persistent, slightly enlarged bases. Opportunist amphicarpy occurs in both species. An illustration of G. pindanica is provided.

Uroptychus michaeli (Decapoda, Chirostylidae), a new species of deep-water squat lobster from north-western Australia and Taiwan

Crustaceana ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 90 (7-10) ◽  
pp. 799-806
Author(s):  
Shane T. Ahyong ◽  
Keiji Baba
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Carapace Length ◽  
Squat Lobster ◽  
Northwestern Australia ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

Uroptychus michaelisp. nov. is described from northwestern Australia and Taiwan. The new species closely resemblesU. nigricapillis, to which northwestern Australian and some Taiwanese records had been previously referred.Uroptychus michaelisp. nov. is readily distinguished fromU. nigricapillisby the deeply excavate cervical groove on the carapace (versus shallow, weakly indicated), more elongate pereopods 2-4 in which the pereopod 2 merus is longer than the postorbital carapace length (versus shorter), and the proportionally longer pereopod 2 carpus, which is as long as or longer than half postorbital carapace length (versus less than half) and approximately twice the length of the dactylus (versus 1.2× or less).

scholarly journals Discovery of the freshwater sponge genus Corvospongilla Annandale (Porifera: Spongillida) in Australia with the description of a new species and phylogeographic implications

Limnology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Manconi ◽  
Dirk Erpenbeck ◽  
Jane Fromont ◽  
Gert Wörheide ◽  
Roberto Pronzato
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Freshwater Sponge ◽  
Freshwater Sponges ◽  
Molecular Analyses ◽  
Biogeographic Patterns ◽  
Hydrographic Basin ◽  
Integrative Systematics ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA recent discovery of freshwater sponges in an unexplored hydrographic basin in north-western Australia provided the opportunity to investigate the genus Corvospongilla Annandale (Spongillida: Spongillidae) using integrative systematics. Emendation of the genus diagnosis is provided. A comparative analysis of a Corvospongilla global dataset of morphological traits together with biogeographic patterns disclosed a new Australasian Corvospongilla species and along with molecular analyses provided the basis for a phylogenetic and phylogeographic tree for some Asian, Afrotropical and Australasian lineages.

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