Range extension of the Triodia Earless Skink Hemiergis millewae, and first record in New South Wales

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 636-640
Author(s):  
Jules E. Farquhar
Keyword(s):  
Species Distribution ◽  
Threatened Species ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
First Record ◽  
North East ◽  
Broken Hill ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Survey Effort

A specimen of the Triodia Earless Skink Hemiergis millewae was discovered on the Barrier Range of far-western New South Wales (NSW). This observation is significant because it constitutes the first record of the species in NSW and the Broken Hill Complex bioregion, extending the species’ range 140 km north-east of the nearest known population in South Australia. Suitable spinifex habitat for H. millewae is highly isolated and small in extent on the Barrier Range, and the species may qualify for listing as a threatened species in NSW. I discuss the cause of apparent disjunctions in the species’ distribution and highlight the need for additional survey effort.

First record of Sclerotinia laxa Aderh. Ruhl. in New South Wales: differentiation from S. fructicola (Wint.) Rehm. by cultural characteristics and electrophoresis

1976 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 547 ◽  
Author(s):  
LJ Penrose ◽  
J Tarran ◽  
A-L Wong
Keyword(s):  
Prunus Persica ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
First Record ◽  
Prunus Domestica ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Electrophoretic Patterns ◽  
South Wales ◽  
First Time

Sclerotinia laxa is recorded for the first time in New South Wales, at Orange. A survey indicates that the disease is confined to the Central Tableland. The disease was detected on Chaenomeles spp. (flowering quince), Prunus domestica (European plum), Prunus persica (nectarine) and several ornamental Prunus species (flowering cherries, apricot and peach). Cultural characteristics and acrylamidc-gel clectrophoresis were used to compare several of these isolates with isolates of S. fructicola from New South Wales and with S. laxa from Victoria. Isolates of S. laxa from South Australia and Tasmania were also studied in culture. The general colony lobing and the absence of hyphal anastomoses between germinating conidia can be used to identify S. laxa. Other cultural features found to be of little value for identification are discussed. The electrophoretic patterns for several enzymes clearly distinguished S. laxa from S. fructicola, and these representative reference patterns are useful for species identification.

An additional record of the dusky hopping mouse Notomys fuscus in South Australia.

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. P. Waudby ◽  
T. How
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Rainfall ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Arid Areas ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
South West ◽  
South Wales

The dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus) is present in the arid areas of South Australian, north-west New South Wales and south-west Queensland. In October-November 2007 during the seventh year of annual fauna monitoring on the Beverley mine lease, north of Lake Frome, 4 animals were detected. The closest known population is 70 km north-east. Heavy rainfall earlier in the year may have contributed to their presence.

scholarly journals The genus Neuroscelio Dodd (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.) reviewed: new species, distributional update, and discussion of relationships

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2306 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
ALEJANDRO A. VALERIO ◽  
LUBOMÍR MASNER ◽  
ANDREW D. AUSTIN ◽  
NORMAN F. JOHNSON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
First Record ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
Morphological Aspects ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Two New Species

The genus Neuroscelio Dodd is revised and two new species are described: N. lagunai n. sp. (Australia) and N. orientalis n. sp. (Vietnam). An update to the identification key for Neuroscelio species is presented. The male of N. doddi Galloway, Masner & Austin is described, the first record of this sex for the genus. The geographic distribution of Neuroscelio is expanded to include South Australia and New South Wales in Australia, and the Oriental region. The relationships of Neuroscelio are discussed: the genus is removed from the tribe Gryonini. It does not appear to be closely related to any extant genera but is similar in several morphological aspects to the Eocene genus Brachyscelio Brues and the Cretaceous genus Cenomanoscelio Schlüter.

The Yellow-footed Rock-Wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus (Macropodidae)

1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
GR Wilson ◽  
J Gerritsen ◽  
PL Milthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Moisture Regime ◽  
North East ◽  
Broken Hill ◽  
South Wales

In New South Wales P. xanthopus is limited to an area of 70 by 10 km, about 150 km north-east of Broken Hill. The distinctive habitat consists of cliffs, wind-blown caves and angled boulders jumbled together. The temperature and relative humidity differed by 11�C and 21 % between the outside and the inside of one cave. The vegetation is abundant and diverse, and indicates a moisture regime more favourable to the species than is that of the surrounding plain. The conservation of the species is discussed.

A new record of the dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus) in New South Wales

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Val ◽  
T. Mazzer ◽  
D. Shelly
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Plant Production ◽  
Perennial Plant ◽  
Broken Hill ◽  
Preferred Habitat ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Desert Rodent

The dusky hopping mouse, Notomys fuscus, is a desert rodent that occurs in the Simpson Strzelecki Dunefield Bioregion in Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales, where stabilised sand dunes are its preferred habitat. A recent capture from the Broken Hill Complex Bioregion in an atypical habitat (bluebush shrubland) and new locality ~170 km south of the nearest New South Wales record may indicate a significant population eruption and subsequent migration into new areas following the widespread ephemeral and perennial plant production pulse that occurred in 2010.

In A Fix: Fixed-Term Parliaments in the Australian States

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-298
Author(s):  
Peter Congdon
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
South Wales

Constitutional systems of Westminster heritage are increasingly moving towards fixed-term parliaments to, amongst other things, prevent the Premier or Prime Minister opportunistically calling a ‘snap election’. Amongst the Australian states, qualified fixed-term parliaments currently exist in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia have also deliberated over whether to establish similar fixed-term parliaments. However, manner and form provisions in those states' constitutions entrench the Parliament's duration, Governor's Office and dissolution power. In Western Australia and Queensland, unlike Tasmania, such provisions are doubly entrenched. This article considers whether these entrenching provisions present legal obstacles to constitutional amendments establishing fixed-term parliaments in those two states. This involves examining whether laws fixing parliamentary terms fall within section 6 of the Australia Acts 1986 (Cth) & (UK). The article concludes by examining recent amendments to the Electoral Act 1907 (WA) designed to enable fixed election dates in Western Australia without requiring a successful referendum.

scholarly journals Broken Hill, New South Wales

Nature ◽  
1924 ◽  
Vol 113 (2845) ◽  
pp. 697-698
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Broken Hill ◽  
South Wales

The Relation Between the Food of the Australian Barracouta, Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen), and Recent Fluctuations in the Fisheries

1957 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
Population Distribution ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
Small Fish ◽  
Fish Diet ◽  
Upward Trend ◽  
Independent Evidence ◽  
South Wales

The diet of surface-swimming Australian barracouta was studied from over 10,000 stomachs. The principal prey organisms in Bass Strait are the euphausiid Nyctiphanes australis Sars, the anchovy Engraulis australis (White), and young barracouta, in that order; and in eastern Tasmania Nyctiphanes, Engraulis, and the sprat Clupea bassensis McCulloch, in that order. The pilchard Sardinops neopilchardus (Steindachner) is not an important item of the diet in these regions although it is so in New South Wales, South Australia, and Western Australia. The jack mackerel Trachurus declivis Jenyns is a significant item in eastern Tasmania and New South Wales but not in Bass Strait. These and other features of the fish diet of the barracouta reflect actual availability of the various small fish species in the waters. Barracouta eat Nyctiphanes by herding them into dense masses (or finding them already concentrated) and swallowing them. The movements of the anchovy make it unavailable to Bass Strait and eastern Tasmanian barracouta for much of the summer and autumn period, when the barracouta are thus dependent upon Nyctiphanes for the bulk of their food. A close positive relationship between the availability of barracouta and Nyctiphanes might therefore be expected at those seasons. There is evidence of such a relationship between mean availability (catch per boat-month) of barracouta and mean percentage of barracouta stomachs containing Nyctiphanes, at those seasons, from year to year. For southern Victorian coastal waters both show a downward trend from 1948-49 to 1950-51 and then an upward trend to 1953-54; for eastern Tasmania both show a downward trend (for autumn only) from 1949-50 through 1952-53. The records of catch per boat-month furnish independent evidence that the main variations in this index were effects of availability (population distribution or behaviour) rather than abundance (population size), at least for southern Victoria. It is therefore considered that when scarcity of barracouta occurs in summer and autumn in the coastal fishing areas it may be due to scarcity of Nyctiphanes, forcing the fish to go offshore for this food which is known to be available there. This would take the fish out of range of the fishermen.

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