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.

Three species of the genus Geopetitia Chabaud (Nematoda: Spirurata) from Australian birds

Parasitology ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Mawson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
Helminthological Collection ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Australian Birds ◽  
The University ◽  
Zoology Department

Among over 700 Australian birds dissected, Geopetitia spp. were found in three. These are described as new species, as follows: G. streperae from Strepera melanoptera, G. chibiae (female only) from Chibia bracteata, and G. falco (female only) from Falco longipennis.Types of the new species will be deposited in the South Australian Museum. Paratype material of G. streperae will be in the Helminthological Collection of the Zoology Department of the University of Adelaide.The three birds from which the Geopetitia spp. were taken were collected by ornithologists of the South Australian Museum, to whom I am most grateful.

Two species of Nematoda (Spirurida: Spiruridae) from Australian dasyurids

Parasitology ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Mawson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Museum

Cylicospirura heydoni (Baylis) is redescribed, from what is assumed to be paratype material (Queensland) and from Dasyurus quoll (Tasmania) and Dasyurops maculatus (N.S. Wales). Cyathospirura dasyuridis, sp.nov., is described from the same host spp., from N.S.W. and Tasmania.Some specimens and some intact nodules were sent by Mr Green of Queen's Museum, Launceston, Tasmania. Skinned animals were given to me for dissection by Mr Peter Aitken, Curator of Mammals, at the South Australian Museum. To both of these collectors I am most grateful.Types of the new species will be deposited in the South Australian Museum.

Studies in Australian Acarina Laelaptidae

Parasitology ◽  
1937 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 530-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Womersley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Museum

The material recorded and described in the present paper consists not only of the specimens in the South Australian Museum, but largely an immense number of specimens sent to the writer by Mr F. H. Taylor of the Department of Tropical Health, Sydney. To him, my best thanks are due for the opportunity to examine and describe this material. Types of the new species are in the South Australian Museum and paratypes amongst the material returned to the Department of Tropical Health, Sydney.

Some Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Great Australian Bight in the collection of the South Australian Museum

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4410 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
JEANETTE E. WATSON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Australia ◽  
South Australian Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Great Australian Bight

This report adds to knowledge of the shelf hydroid fauna of the Great Australian Bight. Hydroids were collected by the South Australian Museum and Department of Primary Industries of South Australia (PIRSA). Well known species are annotated, poorly known species are redescribed and four new species are described.  

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.

New taxa of the mite family Neopygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) from alpine New Zealand

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4415 (2) ◽  
pp. 276 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV ◽  
MARIA A. MINOR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The South ◽  
Alpine Zone ◽  
Mite Family

Two new genera and four new species of the mite family Neopygmephoridae (Acari: Pygmephoroidea) are described from the alpine zone (1600–1900 m a.s.l.) of the Central Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand: Protobakerdania Khaustov and Minor gen. nov. with the type species Pygmephorus togatus Willmann, 1942, Neobakerdania Khaustov and Minor gen. nov. with the type species Neobakerdania pilosa Khaustov and Minor sp. nov., and the species Protobakerdania diseta Khaustov and Minor sp. nov., Troxodania minuta Khaustov and Minor sp. nov., and Bakerdania alpina Khaustov and Minor sp. nov. Eight species are moved to Protobakerdania Khaustov and Minor gen. nov. from Bakerdania Sasa, 1961: P. aperta (Rack and Kaliszewski, 1985) comb. nov., P. arvorum (Jacot, 1936) comb. nov., P. arvorum nodulosa (Mahunka, 1969b) comb. nov., P. baloghi (Mahunka, 1969b) comb. nov., P. crenata (Mahunka, 1969b) comb. nov., P. pristinus (Mahunka, 1968) comb. nov., P. randae (Sevastianov and Zahida Al Douri, 1989) comb. nov., and P. togatus (Willmann, 1942) comb. nov. 

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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