Genetic variation and population subdivison in the greentail prawn Metapenaeus bennettae (Racek & Dall)

1987 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 339 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Salini
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Heterogeneity ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Fumarate Hydratase ◽  
Allele Frequencies ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium ◽  
Starch Gel

The genetic structure of M. bennettae populations from six locations on the east coast of Australia was investigated using starch-gel electrophoresis. Eight polymorphic loci (fumarate hydratase, glucose- 6-phosphate isomerase, malate dehydrogenase-1 and -2, mannose-6-phosphate isomerase, octanol dehydrogenase, phosphogluconate dehydrogenase and phosphoglucomutase) were examined. All loci over the six sites were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Although low levels of variation typical of penaeid prawns were found, the contingency Χ2 analysis of allele frequencies over all locations revealed considerable genetic heterogeneity. However, pairwise comparisons of adjacent locations showed that most of this genetic heterogeneity was largely attributable to the Moreton Bay-Lake Macquarie comparison. These two locations are the most widely separated adjacent sample sites. Replicate samples from 1982 and 1983 revealed consistency in allele frequencies at Moreton Bay and at Lake Macquarie. These results confirm previously reported genetic heterogeneity between Queensland and New South Wales populations of M. bennettae, but they do not support the report that nearby populations in both Queensland and New South Wales are also heterogeneous.

Taxonomy and distribution of the grey kangaroos, Macropus giganteus Shaw and Macropus Fuliginosus (Desmarest), and their subspecies (Marsupialia : Macropodidae)

1972 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 315 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAW Kirsch ◽  
WE Poole
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Double Diffusion ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Species Overlap ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Western Victoria

Of all the Macropodidae, grey kangaroos cover the widest range in Australia. There is considerable geographical variation in morphology and opinions have differed as to the taxonomic status of the various kinds. This investigation supports a primary division of grey kangaroos into two species-eastern and western on the basis of serological, reproductive, and morphological distinctions. The eastern species, M. giganteus, is found in all eastern states, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, plus south-east South Australia, while the western species, M. fuliginosus, occurs in south-western Western Australia and southern South Australia including Kangaroo I., extending into western Victoria and south-western New South Wales, where the ranges of the two species overlap. Transferrin polymorphism was detected by starch-gel electrophoresis, revealing three phenotypes, A, AB, and B. Western populations possess all three phenotypes, but eastern populations have type A only. Western and eastern grey kangaroos also have characteristic antigens. Eastern animals when immunized with sera from western kangaroos produced antibodies which during double-diffusion analysis reacted with sera from western individuals. Likewise the reverse immunization acted as expected. Thus the origin of individuals, from western or eastern populations, could be determined. Hybrids were not found in the field, but matings between captive western males and eastern females the reverse mating never occurred produced hybrids whose antigens were characteristic of both parental types. In eastern grey kangaroos the mean length of oestrous'cycle, 45.6 days, and gestation period, 36.4 days, is longer than in western kangaroos, with mean lengths 34.9 and 30.6 days. Oestrous cycles of hybrid females and gestation periods of all hybrids are of intermediate length, 37.6 and 34.1 days respectively. The colour of eastern grey kangaroos ranges from light to dark grey while western kangaroos are brown. The history of the previously described taxa and the effect of the current findings on the nomenclature relating to grey kangaroos are discussed.

VICTORIANS LIVE: AUSTRALIA'S VICTORIAN VESTIGES

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 342-346
Author(s):  
Margaret Harris
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
British Colonies

ON 1 JANUARY 1901, at the beginning of a new century, the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed a political entity by the federation of six separate British colonies. Queen Victoria's formal assent to the necessary legislation of the Westminster Parliament was one of her last official acts; she died on 22 January. For all the tyranny of 20,000 kilometres distance, the impress of the monarch on her far-flung colony was evident. Two of the states of the Commonwealth, Victoria and Queensland, had been named for her. When the Port Phillip settlement separated from New South Wales in 1851, it became Victoria; in 1859, when the Moreton Bay settlement also hived off, its first governor announced “a fact which I know you will all hear with delight–Queensland, the name selected for this new Colony, was entirely the happy thought and inspiration of Her Majesty herself!” (Cilento and Lack 161)

scholarly journals Investigating death in Moreton Bay: Coronial inquests and magisterial inquiries

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Lee Butterworth
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Penal Colony ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Justices Of The Peace ◽  
Physical Limitations ◽  
Interracial Violence ◽  
Death Investigation

AbstractEnglish common law was applied in the New South Wales penal colony when it was founded by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1788. Phillip’s second commission granted him sole authority to appoint coroners and justices of the peace within the colony. The first paid city coroner was appointed in 1810 and only five coroners served the expanding territory of New South Wales by 1821. To relieve the burden on coroners, justices of the peace were authorised to conduct magisterial inquiries as an alternative to inquests. When the Moreton Bay settlement was established, and land was opened up to free settlers, justices were relocated from New South Wales to the far northern colony. Nonetheless, the administration of justice, along with the function of the coroner, was hindered by issues of isolation, geography and poor administration by a government far removed from the evolving settlement. This article is about death investigation and the role of the coroner in Moreton Bay. By examining a number of case studies, it looks at the constraints faced by coroners, deaths due to interracial violence and deaths not investigated. It concludes that not all violent and unexplained deaths were investigated in accordance with coronial law due to a paucity of legally qualified magistrates, the physical limitations of local conditions and the denial of justice to Aborigines as subjects of the Crown.

Siphonoecetini Just, 1983 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Ischyroceridae) 9: New species in Rhinoecetes Just, 1983, Cephaloecetes gen. nov. and Neoecetes gen. nov. from the south-eastern Australian shelf

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3234 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
JEAN JUST
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Margin Entire ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia

Six new species of Rhinoecetes Just, 1983, R. rhinoceros, R. dinoceros, R. brevirostris, R. coclearis, R. albomaculosus andR. meridianus, are described together with Cephaloecetes enigmaticus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Neoecetes conipes gen.nov., sp. nov. from eastern Australia from Moreton Bay in Queensland to Bass Strait and Tasmania. Cephaloecetes gen.nov. differs from Rhinoecetes by having the head front margin entire and a pseudorostrum arising underneath from thefrons. Neoecetes gen. nov. differs from Rhinoecetes in having two robust setae instead of one on the posterior projectionof gnathopod 2 carpus, a row of small accessory robust setae on pereopods 5 and 6 carpus instead of a single one, anduropod 3 ramus being conical instead of round. Keys to genera and species are given. A novel character, a pair of sternalpapillae, is documented in Rhinoecetes and Cephaloecetes on the ventral surface of pereonite 7 in adult females. The dis-tribution of the species is commented upon. The most diverse fauna of Siphonoecetini was found in Jervis Bay, New South Wales.

Crown Lands Commissioners – Moreton Bay and Darling Downs, 1842–56

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (01) ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Margaret Shield
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Crown Lands

AbstractCommissioners of Crown Lands were the first government officials appointed to the newly declared pastoral districts surrounding Moreton Bay after it was opened to free settlement in 1842. These officers had a significant impact on the formation of regional communities, the administration of justice and the treatment of the Indigenous people but their primary responsibility was the implementation and enforcement of government policies relating to Crown Lands. Commissioners were required to oversee pastoral leases, ensure payment of fees for pastoral and other licences and undertake expeditions to provide the New South Wales government with information regarding the nature of the land and its resources. Extracts from the original correspondence between the Commissioners and the Colonial Secretary indicate that, despite enormous challenges, early Crown Lands Commissioners were largely successful in ensuring the orderly settlement of pastoral districts. Their success however, came at the expense of the Indigenous people, who were systematically driven from their lands without compensation and with scant consideration for their welfare.

Three New Stomatopoda (Crustacea) from Eastern Australia

1953 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
W Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Moreton Bay ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Specific Rank

The following new species are described and figured: Squilla granti from Moreton Bay, Queensland; S. terrareginensis from north Queensland; and S. meneilli from deep water off the New South Wales coast. Justifications are given for the elevation of S. scorpio var. immaculata Kemp 1913 to specific rank.

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