Biogeography and Prehistoric Exploitation of Birds in the Mussau Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

1998 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Steadman ◽  
Patrick V. Kirch
2002 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.G. Leavesley ◽  
M.I. Bird ◽  
L.K. Fifield ◽  
P.A. Hausladen ◽  
G.M. Santos ◽  
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Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4268 (3) ◽  
pp. 427
Author(s):  
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

The supertribe Cephenniitae and the tribe Cephenniini are for the first time recorded from the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Cephennodes (s. str.) mussauinsularis sp. n. and Cephennomicrus manusianus sp. n. are described, based on specimens collected respectively on Mussau Island (New Ireland Province) and Manus Island (Manus Province).


1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Møller Andersen

AbstractThe generic classification of water striders belonging to the veliid subfamily Haloveliinae is discussed and revised and a key to the genera provided. A new genus of marine haloveliines, Haloveloides gen. n., is described. The type species of the new genus, H. papuensis (Esaki) comb. n., is redescribed and recorded from Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Solomons. H. browni (Lansbury) comb. n. is redescribed and recorded from the same areas as the type species. Five new species are described in the genus: H. brevicornis sp. n. (the Moluccas, Sulawesi, Palawan), sundaensis sp. n. (Sunda shelf areas), danpolhemi sp. n. (Palawan), cornuta sp. n. (Luzon), and femoralis sp. n. (Palawan). The cladistic relationships and biogeography of the species are discussed.


Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1639 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN J. RICHARDS ◽  
ANDREW L. MACK ◽  
CHRISTOPHER C. AUSTIN

Two new species of the ceratobatrachid frog genus Platymantis are described from the Admiralty Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Platymantis admiraltiensis sp. nov. and P. latro sp. nov. have been confused with P. gilliardi Zweifel, 1960 which is known with certainty only from New Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago. Platymantis admiraltiensis sp. nov. differs from P. gilliardi in its much longer legs (TL/SV 0.54–0.60 vs 0.51 in the holotype of P. gilliardi), and from all species of the morphologically conservative P. papuensis complex by its advertisement call, a long series of slowly-repeated (~ 0.4–1.9/s) yapping notes lasting up to 44 seconds. Platymantis latro sp. nov. differs from P. gilliardi and all other members of the P. papuensis complex in having a broad dark stripe laterally on the head and an advertisement call consisting of a single biphasic note with 10–20 short, irregularly spaced pulses followed by one long, musical pulse. Both new species are known only from the Admiralty Archipelago. This study confirms the utility of advertisement call structure for distinguishing among morphologically similar ceratobatrachid taxa.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4576 (1) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
PEKKA VILKAMAA ◽  
ANNA SUURONEN

The Bradysia luctifica group is characterized for a number of species with an Oriental-Australasian distribution. The group includes the following species: Bradysia abrupta sp. n. (Malaysia: Pahang, Selangor), B. calicula sp. n. (Malaysia: Sabah), B. conflexa sp. n. (Malaysia: Pahang), B. fornicata sp. n. (Malaysia: Pahang), B. luctifica (Skuse, 1888) (Australia: South Australia, Indonesia: Ceram, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea), B. robusta Mohrig, 2015 (Papua New Guinea) and B. torosa sp. n. (Papua New Guinea: Bismarck Archipelago). The species are keyed and the new species are described and illustrated. 


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