Erratum: CHANTELLE M. DEREZ, KEVIN ARBUCKLE, ZHIQIANG RUAN, BING XIE, YU HUANG, LAUREN DIBBEN, QIONG SHI, FREEK J. VONK & BRYAN G. FRY(2018) A new species of bandy-bandy (Vermicella: Serpentes: Elapidae) from the Weipa region, Cape York, Australia. Zootaxa, 4446: 001–012.

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4461 (4) ◽  
pp. 600
Author(s):  
CHANTELLE M. DEREZ ◽  
KEVIN ARBUCKLE ◽  
ZHIQIANG RUAN ◽  
BING XIE ◽  
YU HUANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cape York ◽  
A New Species

A new species of bandy-bandy (Vermicella: Serpentes: Elapidae) from the Weipa region, Cape York, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4446 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
CHANTELLE M. DEREZ ◽  
KEVIN ARBUCKLE ◽  
ZHIQIANG RUAN ◽  
BING XIE ◽  
YU HUANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Analysis ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Potential Habitat ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Tropical Monsoon ◽  
Conservation Concern ◽  
A New Species

Bandy-bandies (genus Vermicella) are small (50–100cm) black and white burrowing elapids with a highly specialised diet of blindsnakes (Typhlopidae). There are currently 5 recognized species in the genus, all located in Australia, with Vermicella annulata the most encountered species with the largest distribution. Morphological and mitochondrial analyses of specimens collected from the Weipa area, Cape York, Queensland reveal the existence of a new species, which we describe as Vermicella parscauda sp. nov. Mitochondrial DNA analysis (16S and ND4) and external morphological characteristics indicate that the closest relatives of the new species are not V. annulata, which also occurs on Cape York, but rather species from Western Australia and the Northern Territory (V. intermedia and V. multifasciata) which, like V. parscauda, occupy monsoon habitats. Internasal scales are present in V. parscauda sp. nov., similar to V. annulata, but V. intermedia and V. multifasciata do not have nasal scales. V. parscauda sp. nov. has 55–94 black dorsal bands and mottled or black ventral scales terminating approximately 2/3rds of the body into formed black rings, suggesting that hyper-banding is a characteristic of the tropical monsoon snakes (V. intermedia, V. multifasciata and V. parscauda). The confined locality, potential habitat disruption due to mining activities, and scarcity of specimens indicates an urgent conservation concern for this species. 

A new species of Lerista Bell, 1833 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, belonging to the Lerista allanae clade but strongly disjunct from other members of the clade

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4613 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-171
Author(s):  
ANDREW P. AMEY ◽  
PATRICK J. COUPER ◽  
JESSICA WORTHINGTON WILMER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Suitable Habitat ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Cape York ◽  
A New Species

A species of the skink genus Lerista is described from Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.  The species is biogeographically interesting as it appears to be separated by at least 500 km from its nearest relatives, members of the Lerista allanae clade.  The role of Pleistocene sea level changes altering availability of suitable habitat for these sand specialists is discussed as a possible driver of isolation and speciation. 

Ascaridoid nematodes of amphibians and reptiles: Goezia

1978 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. A. Sprent
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Freshwater Fish ◽  
East Coast ◽  
South American ◽  
Sea Snakes ◽  
Crocodylus Porosus ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Host Relationships ◽  
Australian Freshwater ◽  
A New Species

ABSTRACTA new species in the genus Goezia is described from aquatic reptiles of the northern shores of Australia, west of Cape York Peninsula. It was collected from Crocodylus porosus, from a file snake (Achrochordus granulatus), and from sea snakes (Lapemis hardwickii, Enhydrina schistosa, Hydrophis elegans, and H. caerulescens). The new species is compared with G. fluviatilis from Australian freshwater fish, with G. minuta from marine fish of the east coast of North America, and with G. spinulosa and G. intermedia from South American freshwater fish. The host-relationships of the genus are discussed.

Nepenthes parvula (Nepenthaceae), a new species from Cape York, Queensland, Australia

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 277 (2) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
GARY W. WILSON ◽  
STEPHANUS VENTER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Small Stature ◽  
Cape York ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Nepenthes parvula (Nepenthaceae), is described from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. The species is regarded as new based on the overall small stature, small mature pitchers and the old leaves with pitchers that are retained, distinct fine-scale morphological characteristics, and discrete habitat occupied.

A new species of treefrog (Litoria) from Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4171 (1) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEITH R. MCDONALD ◽  
JODI J. L. ROWLEY ◽  
STEPHEN J. RICHARDS ◽  
GRETA J. FRANKHAM
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cape York ◽  
A New Species

Drosophila bunnanda-a new species from northern Australia with notes on other Australian members of the montium subgroup (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1333 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHELE SCHIFFER ◽  
SHANE F. MCEVEY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Clear Differentiation ◽  
Lake Placid ◽  
Montium Subgroup ◽  
A New Species

An unknown Drosophila montium subgroup species was collected on Cape York Peninsula in 1992, a live culture of the same species was established from flies collected in the vicinity of Lake Placid near Cairns in 2001. From these specimens we now have sufficient information to describe a new species—Drosophila bunnanda. It differs morphologically from the four other montium subgroup species already known from northern Queensland—D. serrata, D. birchii, D. kikkawai, and D. sp. cf. jambulina, and from one very similar species—D. dominicana—known from Papua New Guinea. Molecular data support the taxonomic findings. Additional information and a key for all Australian montium subgroup species is provided to allow clear differentiation between them and D. bunnanda.

A new Australian species of Chasmia Enderlein (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini), a genus newly recorded from Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2906 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
GREG DANIELS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Cape York ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Horse Fly

A new species of horse fly, Chasmia queenslandensis sp. n., the first representative of the genus from Australia, is described from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. A key to the Australian diachlorine genera is presented.

scholarly journals Drosera stipularis, a new species for the D. petiolaris complex from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

Telopea ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Paulo Baleeiro ◽  
◽  
Richard Jobson ◽  
Russell Barrett
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cape York ◽  
A New Species

Taxonomic revision of the Australian species of Australatya Chace 1983 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Atyidae), and the description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4711 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-378
Author(s):  
SATISH CHOY ◽  
TIMOTHY J. PAGE ◽  
BENJAMIN MOS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Museum Specimens ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Iron Range ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Australian Freshwater ◽  
A New Species

A morphological and genetic study of both newly collected and museum specimens of the east Australian freshwater shrimp genus Australatya indicates two genotypes and three morphotypes are present. One genotype and morphotype were of the known species, Australatya striolata (McCulloch & McNeill 1923). The second genotype, comprising two morphotypes, is now described as a new species, Australatya hawkei sp. nov.. All Australian Australatya species and morphotypes currently have allopatric distributions. Australatya striolata is widespread along the south–eastern Australian seaboard, from Genoa River in Victoria to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The ‘southern’ morphotype of Australatya hawkei sp. nov. occurs in north Queensland, from near Mackay to about Cooktown, and its ‘northern’ morphotype is found on Cape York Peninsula, north from about Coen to the Iron Range, just north of Lockhart River. The once monotypic genus now includes two Australian species, Australatya striolata and A. hawkei sp. nov., and a third, A. obscura, recently described from Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. 

scholarly journals Redescription of Austrothelphusa wasselli (Bishop, 1963) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), and designation of a new species from the Gilbert River, north Queensland, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4369 (1) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
MURTADA D. NASER ◽  
PETER J. F. DAVIE ◽  
NATHAN J. WALTHAM
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Freshwater Crab ◽  
River Catchment ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Cape York ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

A new species of freshwater crab, Austrothelphusa gilbertensis, is described from Gilbert River Catchment, north-western Queensland. It is morphologically most similar to A. wasselli Bishop, 1963, described from the eastward flowing Stewart Drainage Basin, much further to the north-east on Cape York. It differs from A. wasselli by several morphological characters including, better defined gastro-cardiac carapace grooves, cervical groove relatively deeper, postfrontal lobes more prominent and bearing striated crests, larger and fewer spots on carapace and legs, epibranchial tooth more prominent, walking legs more slender, and G1 more strongly curved. A CO1 genetic divergence of greater than 6% confirms its novel status. Intraspecific CO1 divergence within catchments is also discussed. 

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