Corrigendum — Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia regional survey. I. Studies on Northern Australian species of Eucalyptus

1953 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
ST Blake
Keyword(s):  
Northern Australia ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
Australian Species

The Australian species of Diaptomus (Copepoda: Calanoida) and their distribution

1966 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAE Bayly
Keyword(s):  
Northern Australia ◽  
Northern Limit ◽  
Southern Limit ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
New Localities

The species Diaptomus (Eodiaptomus) lumholtzi Sars and D. (Tropodiaptomus) australis (Kiefer) are redescribed and figured. Both species are recorded from numerous new localities in northern Australia. The southern limit of distribution of D. lumholtzi is discussed in relation to the northern limit of Boeckella. A single example of the coexistence of D. lumholtzi with Boeckella triarticulata, and three examples of coexistence of D. lumholtzi with Calamoecia are cited.

scholarly journals A treatment for Polygala of northern Australia

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raelee A. Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Introduced Species ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Taxonomic Treatment ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
New Varieties

A taxonomic treatment is presented for all Polygala L. species of northern Australia (north of 26°S). In total, 45 species are treated, of which 44 are native and 36 are endemic to Australia. Twenty-six new species and four new varieties are described. A key to all 50 Australian species is provided, including six introduced species (five of which are restricted to southern states of Australia and are not treated here in detail). Lectotypes are here designated for five names. Nomenclatural issues regarding P. linariifolia Willd., P. glaucoides L. and P. triflora L. are discussed.

scholarly journals New Laonice species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from western and northern Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2903 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH GREAVES ◽  
KARIN MEIßNER ◽  
ROBIN WILSON
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
Marine Invertebrate ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Morphological Similarity ◽  
Invertebrate Fauna ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Australian Species

Species belonging to the genus Laonice (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from continental shelf and slope depths off western and northern Australia are described. Three species are new to science (L. lemniscata, L. insolita, L. pectinata), two additional species of uncertain identity are recognised from incomplete material and are similar to existing species. A key is provided to allow identification of all six Laonice species known from Australia. Also, a new standard for the observation of hooded hooks in Laonice is established. One of the Australian species, L. quadridentata, belongs to a group of Laonice species with fused prostomium and peristomium. These species are of great morphological similarity and several are reported to exhibit ontogenetic and individual variability and we discuss the significant taxonomic problems that are a consequence of that variability. The faunas of the continental margin of western and northern Australia were poorly sampled prior to the extensive surveys that generated our study material; this study and other current work suggests that our present estimates of species richness of the Australian marine invertebrate fauna significantly underestimate species richness, perhaps by as much as 50%.

Herons, Egrets and Bitterns

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil McKilligan
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Breeding Population ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Southern Half

This is the first book to deal exclusively with the Australian members of the Family Ardeidae (herons, egrets and bitterns). It gives a comprehensive, easy-to-read account of their origins, classification and biology, and explains the features that distinguish them from other birds. The book devotes a major chapter to the 14 Australian species, covering their distribution and movements, feeding, breeding, population dynamics and conservation. Some of Australia’s herons have become very scarce in the southern half of the continent and are at risk of national or local extinction. In northern Australia heron habitats and resources are largely pristine and consequently this region accommodates large numbers of certain species. A final chapter on population and conservation provides a useful summary of the present status of the Australian herons, some of whom are thriving and others who are in a very precarious position.

Phylogenetic connections of phyllodinous species of Acacia outside Australia are explained by geological history and human-mediated dispersal

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian K. Brown ◽  
Daniel J. Murphy ◽  
James Kidman ◽  
Pauline Y. Ladiges
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
East Asia ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Australian Species

Acacia sensu stricto is found predominantly in Australia; however, there are 18 phyllodinous taxa that occur naturally outside Australia, north from New Guinea to Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, south-western Pacific (New Caledonia to Samoa), northern Pacific (Hawaii) and Indian Ocean (Mascarene Islands). Our aim was to determine the phylogenetic position of these species within Acacia, to infer their biogeographic history. To an existing molecular dataset of 109 taxa of Acacia, we added 51 new accessions sequenced for the ITS and ETS regions of nuclear rDNA, including samples from 15 extra-Australian taxa. Data were analysed using both maximum parsimony and Bayesian methods. The phylogenetic positions of the extra-Australian taxa sampled revealed four geographic connections. Connection A, i.e. northern Australia?South-east Asia?south-western Pacific, is shown by an early diverging clade in section Plurinerves, which relates A. confusa from Taiwan and the Philippines (possibly Fiji) to A. simplex from Fiji and Samoa. That clade is related to A. simsii from southern New Guinea and northern Australia and other northern Australian species. Two related clades in section Juliflorae show a repeated connection (B), i.e. northern Australia?southern New Guinea?south-western Pacific. One of these is the ?A. auriculiformis clade', which includes A. spirorbis subsp. spirorbis from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands as sister to the Queensland species A. auriculiformis; related taxa include A. mangium, A. leptocarpa and A. spirorbis subsp. solandri. The ?A. aulacocarpa clade' includes A. aulacocarpa, A. peregrinalis endemic to New Guinea, A. crassicarpa from New Guinea and Australia, and other Australian species. Acacia spirorbis (syn. A. solandri subsp. kajewskii) from Vanuatu (Melanesia) is related to these two clades but its exact position is equivocal. The third biogeographic connection (C) is Australia?Timor?Flores, represented independently by the widespread taxon A. oraria (section Plurinerves) found on Flores and Timor and in north-eastern Queensland, and the Wetar island endemic A. wetarensis (Juliflorae). The fourth biogeographic connection (D), i.e. Hawaii?Mascarene?eastern Australia, reveals an extreme disjunct distribution, consisting of the Hawaiian koa (A. koa, A. koaia and A. kaoaiensis), sister to the Mascarene (R�union Island) species A. heterophylla; this clade is sister to the eastern Australian A. melanoxylon and A. implexa (all section Plurinerves), and sequence divergence between taxa is very low. Historical range expansion of acacias is inferred to have occurred several times from an Australian?southern New Guinean source. Dispersal would have been possible as the Australian land mass approached South-east Asia, and during times when sea levels were low, from the Late Miocene or Early Pliocene. The close genetic relationship of species separated by vast distances, from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, is best explained by dispersal by Austronesians, early Homo sapiens migrants from Asia.

scholarly journals A new Australian species of Rioxa, with a remarkable Life-habit (Dipt.; Trypaneidae)

1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
M. Bezzi
Keyword(s):  
Present Note ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Life Habit ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
The Family

Dr. Guy A. K. Marshall has recently submitted to me a Trypaneid, discovered in Northern Australia by Mr. G. F. Hill. The fly is said to have been bred from larvae having habits very different from those of the related members of the family; and being moreover interesting from a morphological and biogeographical standpoint, it forms the object of the present note.

Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia Regional Survey. II. Studies on miscellaneous northern Australian plants

1954 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
ST Blake
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Pistia Stratiotes ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
New Family ◽  
Casuarina Cunninghamiana ◽  
Passiflora Foetida ◽  
First Time ◽  
Terminalia Ferdinandiana

This is an account of portion of the botanical collections of the Northern Australia Regional Survey, 1946–47, chiefly from the Darwin–Katherine area. Families fully considered are Anacardiaceae, Aquifoliaceae, Araceae, Barringtoniaceae, Burseraceae, Casuarinaceae, Cochlospermaceae, Lauraceae, Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae, Leguminosae-Mimosoideae (except Acacia), Meliaceae, Myristicaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Palmae, Pandanaceae, Passifloraceae, Pittosporaceae, Rhamnaceae, Rhizophoraceae, Rutaceae, Sapindaceae, Sonneratiaceae, and Sphenocleaceae. A few species of the following families are also discussed: Combretaceae, Cyperaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Gramineae, Leguminosae-Papilionatae, and Moraceae. In addition to discussions on taxonomy, synonymy, and orthography of names, the following additions to the flora of the Northern Territory are recorded: new species: Dendrolobiunz stipatum, Desmodizim polyneurum, Horsfieldia australiana, Sclerandrittm grandiflorum, and Vavaea australiana; species not previously recorded from Australia: Mimosa acanthocarpa, Pistia stratiotes, and Sphenoclea xeylanica; species already known from other parts of Australia: Albixia canescens, Casuarina cunninghamiana, Colubrina asiatica, Cryptocarya cunninghamii, Cyperus platystylis, Cyperus ramosii, Hymenachne amplexicaulis, Neptunia gracilis, Passiflora foetida, and Petalostigma banksii. Two new names are proposed, Eulalia mackinlayi (F. Muell.) S. T. Blake and Terminalia ferdinandiana Exell. The genera Horsfieldia, Pistia, Sphenoclea, and Vavaea have not previously been recorded from Australia and Albixia, Colubrina, Cryptocarya, Dendrolobium, Hymenachne, and Mimosa have not previously been recorded from the Northern Territory. Sphenoclea represents a new family (Sphenocleaceae) for Australia. Cochlospermum fraseri, Cryptocarya cunninghamii, and Sphenoclea xeylanica are also recorded for the first time from Queensland. The following reductions to synonymy are made: Alectryon bleeseri O. Schwartz to Cupaniopsis alliacardioides (A. Rich.) Radlk.; Barringtonia denticulata (Miers) Knuth to B. gracilis (Miers) Knuth, which is treated as distinct from B. aczttangula (L.) Gaertn.; Buchanania oblongifolia W. V. Fitzg. and B. muelleri Engl. var. pilosa Engl. to B. obovata Engl.; Buchanania muelleri Engl. to B. arborescens (BI.) Bl.; Ilex peduncularis F. Muell. to I . arnhemensis (F. Muell.) Loes.; and Pandanus delestangii Martelli to P. aquaticus F. Muell.

A review of the genus Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae) in Northern Australia.

Brunonia ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
LA Craven
Keyword(s):  
Northern Australia ◽  
Australian Species

The genus Calytrix is reviewed for northern Australia and 12 species are recognized as occurring in the area. Six of these species are described as new: C. decussata, C. faucicola, C. micrairoides, C. mimiana, C. surdiviperana and C. verticillata. All names applicable to the northern Australian species are taken into account and a key to the identification of these species is provided. All species are illustrated.

A revision of the Australian Stem Borers hitherto referred to Schoenobius and Scirpophaga (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Schoenobiinae)

1960 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 307 ◽  
Author(s):  
IFB Common
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Stem Borer ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Stem Borers ◽  
Cultivated Rice ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
A New Species

The Australian pyralid stem borers of Gramineae, Cyperaceae, and Juncaceae, previously assigned to Schoenobius Duponchel and Scirpophaga Treitschke, are here referred to six genera. Scirpophaga Treit. - Eight species are recognized: S. chrysorrhoa Zeller, S. phaedima, sp. nov., S. limnochares, sp. nov., S. xantharrenes, sp. nov., S. imparella (Meyrick), S. helodes, sp. nov., S. percna, sp. nov., and S. ochroleuca (Meyrick). Though some of these bear a superficial resemblance to the true rice stem borers, the genus includes species whose larvae attack sedges (Cyperaceae). Helonastes, gen. nov. - The genus is based on a new species, H. acentrus, associated with Eleocharis (Cyperaceae) in central Queensland. Niphadoses, gen. nov.-The genus is erected to include three new Australian species, N. palleucus, which is associated with cultivated rice in north-western Australia, N. elachia, and N. hoplites, together with N. chionotus (Meyrick) from New Guinea and N. gilbiverbis (Zeller) from India. Catagela Walker. - A new species, C. adoceta, from northern Australia, is described. Tryporyza gen. nov. - The genus is established to receive the two important stem-borer pests of cultivated rice, Tipanaea innotata Walker from south-east Asia and northern Australia and Chilo incertulas Walker from south-east Asia, previously referred to Scirpophaga and Schoenobius respectively. Also included are Scirpophaga butyrota Meyrick from New Guinea and Schoenobius melanostigmus Turner from the Cape York Peninsula. It is suggested that T. innotata already occurred in northern Australia before European settlement. Tipanaea Walker. - The genus is restricted to the single Australian species, T. patulella Walker, associated with Juncaceae. Genitalic and other structures used to distinguish these genera are discussed. The genitalia of both sexes and the wings of the Australian species are figured, and keys to the genera and species are included.

Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia regional survey. I. Studies on Northern Australian species of Eucalyptus

1953 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
ST Blake
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time

This is the first botanical contribution from the C.S.I.R.O. Northern Australia Regional Survey. Revised accounts of 50 species with discussions on taxonomy, distribution, and typification of names are the result of a partial revision of the genus Eucalyptus as represented in the northern part of Australia; keys to two groups particularly studied are given. All the 42 species known from the northern part of the Northern Territory are treated, with three keys to their identification; the first of these is based on characters observable in the field, the second on hand specimens with buds and flowers, and the third on hand specimens with fruits only. New criteria for the discrimination of species have been used, and some examples of their application are shown graphically; these include the number of lateral veins in the leaf, the ratio of its length to its breadth, and (to some extent) the exact distance of the intramarginal vein from the margin and the shape of the free part of the calyx-tube of the flower. The juvenile stages, flowers, fruits, and seeds are described for the first time for some species. Types of all names, with the herbaria in which they are to be found, are cited, with reference to published figures, some of which appear for the first time in this paper. Several lectotypes are designated, and the guiding principles adopted for their selection are described. Citations of specimens are restricted to those collected in 1946-9 on the Northern Australia Regional Survey, to types, new records, and some critical collections. Distribution maps of 51 species are based on all specimens examined. Plates from photographs illustrate the characteristic habit of some species, the deciduous nature of some, a few characteristic barks, various type specimens and some other specimens cited in taxonomic discussions. The status of about 160 names was investigated. Among others, E. clavigera A. Cunn. ex Schau., E. polycarpa F. Muell., E. terminalis F. Muell., E. foelscheana F. Muell., and E. racernosa Cav. are shown to have been originally applied to species different from those currently passing under these names. Many names are treated as synonyms on taxonomic grounds, 24 of them for the first time. All nomenclatural changes are summarized in two tables. One new species, E. porrecta S. T. Blake, and one new combination, E. gilbertensis (Maiden & Blakely) S. T. Blake, are proposed. The following species are new records for the areas mentioned: E. Izerbertiana and E. cliftoniana (Northern Territory) ; E. aspera and E. ferruginea (Queensland) ; E. bigalerita and E. patellaris (Western Australia) ; and E. dichromophloia (South Australia). In an appendix, the graphical methods and distribution maps are discussed and some remarks made on the phylogeny and history of distribution of the genus.

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