Novapus bifidus Carne, 1957, a primary homonym and synonym of Novapus bifidus Lea, 1910 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4560 (3) ◽  
pp. 576
Author(s):  
PETER G. ALLSOPP ◽  
PETER J. HUDSON
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Natural History ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Males And Females

In his landmark revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Phil Carne (1957) described Novapus bifidus Carne, 1957 from males and females collected at Cape York and Thursday Island. The type series is in the Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia (ANIC); the Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom; the South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia (SAM); and the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. He noted “In the collections of the South Australian Museum there are specimens designated as types of bifidus Lea. No description of this species has been published, and it is now described under the same specific name”. One of his paratypes is a female in SAM identified as “Lea’s unpublished ♀ type” and two other paratypes are males in SAM. Cassis & Weir (1992) noted that one of the SAM specimens has the registration number I4268, although they knew of only two paratypes (one male, one female) in that collection. The name has been attributed to Carne by most subsequent authors (Endrődi 1974, 1985; Carne & Allsopp 1987; Cassis & Weir 1992; Dechambre 2005; Atlas of Living Australia 2018.). Krajcik (2005, 2012) listed it in his scarab checklists but as “bifidus? Carne 1957”. 

Current condition of Bathypogon types (Diptera: Asilidae) described by Frank M. Hull and housed in the South Australian Museum of Natural History with notes on other Bathypogon types

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4868 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-576
Author(s):  
ROBERT J. LAVIGNE
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Strong Current

The current condition of the types of Bathypogon, described by Frank M. Hull 1956–1959, are listed. By his own admission, a portion of the material borrowed from the South Australian Museum was destroyed by “pests”. Note is made that the holotype of Bathypogon microdonturus is missing and presumed destroyed. Additions are made to the published data based on data on the Type specimen labels. Photos of the hypandrium of some Bathypogon holotypes that reside in the SA Museum collection are provided. 

scholarly journals The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4779 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-437
Author(s):  
GLENN SHEA ◽  
SCOTT THOMSON ◽  
ARTHUR GEORGES
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Cape York

The identity of Chelodina oblonga has been unclear because it has been variously defined to include populations of snake-necked chelid turtle from the southwest of Western Australia, across northern Australia, Cape York and southern New Guinea in its broadest conception, from just the northern part of this range (northern Australia and New Guinea), or restricted to the southwest corner of Western Australia in its narrowest conception. Uncertainty over the identity of the type specimens has added to the confusion. In this paper, we review the historical data on the extent of the type series of Chelodina oblonga, and its potential provenance, and find evidence that resolves some of the inconsistencies in previous literature on the identification of the type. Our analysis casts doubt on the northern Australian provenance of the type material. Hence, we return the name C. oblonga to the south-western species, in accordance with the genetic evidence for the provenance of the type in the Natural History Museum, London, and the external morphology of the type series. We designate a lectotype for the species, and redefine the subgeneric names that apply to the Australasian genus Chelodina, providing a new subgeneric name for one lineage. 

scholarly journals Annotated catalogue of the types of Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom, London

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-308
Author(s):  
Paolo G. Albano ◽  
Piet A. J. Bakker ◽  
Bruno Sabelli
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Series ◽  
The United Kingdom

We revise the type specimens of 132 nominal species of worldwide Triphoridae stored in the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom (NHMUK), London. We provide the species name in its original combination, followed by bibliographic details of the original description, the location of the known type material, the original description (and its translation when in Latin), a diagnosis and curatorial or nomenclatural notes. We illustrated most specimens in the type series in colour and with SEM imaging and we have added the original figure whenever possible. The specimens of Triphorisalveolatus, T.granulatus, T.suturalis and T.verrucosus, all A. Adams & Reeve, 1850, T.pfeifferi Crosse & Fischer, 1865 and T.cucullatus de Folin, 1867, previously considered type material, are not considered here belonging to the type series. Adams & Reeve’s taxa should be considered nomina dubia. The name Triphorainsularum is a manuscript name by H.E.J. Biggs who deposited “types” in the NHMUK but refrained from introducing the name due to the lack of apex of the studied material. We selected lectotypes for six species (T.concors Hinds, 1843, T.maxillaris Hinds, 1843, T.fuscomaculata E.A. Smith, 1904, T.shepstonensis E.A. Smith, 1906, T.eupunctata G.B. Sowerby III, 1907, and T.rufula Watson, 1886) to stabilize the nomenclature. Finally, we illustrate original specimens (although not types) of three species described by Turton, whose type material is lost.

The life-cycle of Echinoparyphium hydromyos sp.nov. (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) from the Australian water-rat

Parasitology ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Madeline Angel
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Type Material ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Water ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Hydromys Chrysogaster

Echinoparyphium hydromyos sp.nov. with forty-five collar spines is described from the Australian water rat, Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffr.The cercaria occurs naturally in Plananisus isingi (Cotton & Godfrey), and all stages in the life-history have been demonstrated experimentally.Encystation occurs in the kidneys of tadpoles.The adult is most closely related to Echinoparyphium recurvatum (Linstow). It differs from this in its greater number of eggs and in its life-history. E. recurvatum occurs predominantly in birds, and is rarely found naturally in mammals. E. hydromyos has been found only in a mammal.Cercaria echinoparyphii hydromyos is compared with C. clelandae Johnston and Angel; it differs from the latter in the ‘compound’ nature of the excretory granules. The adult of C. clelandae has not been demonstrated in spite of a number of experiments to determine it.Type material has been deposited in the South Australian Museum.I wish to acknowledge the help given by my colleague, Patricia M. Thomas, in field work and in other ways, and by Mr Ian Smith, of this department, in the experimental work on life-history studies.

Synonymy in the genus Trichotrombidium (Acari: Microtrombidiidae)

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1024
Author(s):  
Masoud Hakimitabar ◽  
Alireza Saboori
Keyword(s):  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Museum

In this paper, we give new metric data of the T. muscarum lectotype and paralectotypes deposited in the South Australian Museum (SAM). T. rafieiae Saboori, 2002 was synonymized with T. muscarum.

Australasian Nature Photography 08

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Break Up

The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back over 50 million years since the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland. The South Australian Museum focuses on enhancing a general knowledge of this extraordinary legacy by encouraging photography of the region’s nature and wilderness, and promoting an annual competition to find the Nature Photographer of the Year. Australasian Nature Photography: ANZANG Eighth Collection presents the finest photographs submitted to the competition. Each photograph is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes about how the picture was taken, which will stimulate yet further interest in the flora and fauna and their conservation in the region.

scholarly journals On a Rich Fauna in the varians Zone of the Lower Chalk near Reigate

1920 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 269-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard W. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Rich Fauna

THIS fauna resembles that found by Mantell a hundred years ago in the “Chalk Marl” of the South Downs at Hamsey, near Lewes (see specimens in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington), but the occurrence of such a fauna in the familiar North Downs of Surrey seems hitherto unknown. I think, then, that this find should be recorded, that others may, when possible, see how far the faunal richness is local.

scholarly journals Seven new species of cestode parasites (Neodermata, Platyhelminthes) from Australian birds

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Mariaux ◽  
Boyko B. Georgiev
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Field Collection ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Australian Birds

Cestodes (Platyhelminthes) from Australian birds from the South Australian Museum collections were studied with a focus on common endemic terrestrial hosts. Despite the variable state of preservation of the examined worms, we could identify several new taxa, including Sobolevitaenia whittingtoni sp. nov. and Spiniglans beveridgei sp. nov. (Dilepididae) in Corvus mellori Mathews, 1912 (Corvidae); Notopentorchis musealis sp. nov. (Paruterinidae) in Hirundapus caudacutus (Latham, 1801) (Apodidae); Monopylidium australiense sp. nov. (Dilepididae) in Menura novaehollandiae Latham, 1801 (Menuridae); Dictymetra gerganae sp. nov. (Dilepididae) in Podargus strigoides (Latham, 1802) (Podargidae); Dictymetra longiuncinata sp. nov. in Esacus magnirostris (Vieillot, 1818) (Burhinidae) and Cracticotaenia adelaidae sp. nov. (Metadilepididae) in Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1801) (Artamidae) and Corcorax melanorhamphos (Vieillot, 1817) (Corcoracidae). Several other presumably new taxa that cannot be fully described are also reported. This diversity found in common hosts suggests the presence of a rich, and presently almost completely unknown, fauna of cestode parasites in Australian birds. As field collection permits allowing to explore this fauna are extremely difficult to obtain, this is a demonstration of the usefulness of museum collections to describe at least part of it.

The Boxhole meteoritic iron, Central Australia (With Plates XX and XXI.)

1940 ◽  
Vol 25 (168) ◽  
pp. 481-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. T. Madigan ◽  
A. R. Alderman
Keyword(s):  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Meteorite Crater ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
Meteoritic Iron ◽  
The Way

The Boxhole meteorite crater has been described previously. It is in Central Australia at latitude 22° 37′ 30´″ S., longitude 135° 11′ 59″ E. During the single afternoon that was spent examining this great crater, nearly 200 yards across, most of the time was occupied with taking measurements and photographs, and only a few shale-balls were found in the way of meteoritic material. Mr. Joe Webb, who lives nearby, was instructed to continue the search, and in due course he sent down to Adelaide three pieces of iron weighing respectively 17 lb. 9 oz., 1 lb. 8 oz., and 5 oz., shown in figs. 1 and 3, together with six more shale-balls. This material was purchased by the South Australian Museum. Two other small pieces of iron have been obtained by the author from other sources.

Murnpeowie (South Australia), a granular type of meteoric iron

1935 ◽  
Vol 24 (148) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
South Australia ◽  
British Museum ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
Australian School ◽  
The South ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Australian Museum

Apreliminary account of this fine mass, weighing 2520 lb., of meteoric iron was given in 1910 by L. Laybourne Smith, who at that time was Registrar of the South Australian School of Mines and Industries in Adelaide; but the promised detailed description with chemical analysis never appeared. Except for a small piece cut off one corner (upper left-hand corner in fig. 1) the mass is preserved intact in the Museum of that Institution, and none of the material appears to have been distributed to other museums. Casts of the mass were, however, made for the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, and one of them was presented to the British Museum in 1917 (B.M. 1917,360), where in the meteorite collection it is a very striking object (fig. 1).Recently, at the suggestion of Mr. R. Bedford of the Kyancutta Museum, the Council of the South Australian School of Mines has generously presented to the British Museum a piece of this meteoric iron, together with the milling cuttings, with the request that the description of it should be completed.

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