Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2023.2022-02
E. Beaver
The rarely seen Bathromelas Turner 1947, a monotypic Australian endemic genus with the species Bathromelas hyaloscopa (Meyrick & Lower, 1907), is rediscovered, and a new description is provided. The male genitalia, female, pupae of both sexes, late instar larvae, and the unique case design are all figured and described for the first time. The larval host plant is identified as Allocasuarina luehmannii (Casuarinaceae), with B. hyaloscopa regarded as a Casuarinaceae specialist, unusual as oiketicine psychids are typically polyphagous. Prior to this study the species was known from only three male specimens, with the most recent of those collected in 1938. The data for all known and new specimens is included, and a brief discussion on the systematic affinity of this genus is provided.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2023.2023-01
Peter Allsopp, Karin Koch
Where uncertainty is identified, the status of putative type specimens for 87 species group names of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) housed in the Queensland Museum is reviewed. This can relate to outdated concepts and terminologies used in the descriptions, names that were not subsequently published, or material that was seen by the authors of the species but not listed in the original publication. Specimens are identified by their registry labels, labels summarising any changes to their status were attached to each specimen, and the museum’s electronic registers were updated. Full label data are given to allow future recognition.
{"title":"Review of the type status of some Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) held by the Queensland Museum","authors":"Peter Allsopp, Karin Koch","doi":"10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2023.2023-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2023.2023-01","url":null,"abstract":"Where uncertainty is identified, the status of putative type specimens for 87 species group names of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) housed in the Queensland Museum is reviewed. This can relate to outdated concepts and terminologies used in the descriptions, names that were not subsequently published, or material that was seen by the authors of the species but not listed in the original publication. Specimens are identified by their registry labels, labels summarising any changes to their status were attached to each specimen, and the museum’s electronic registers were updated. Full label data are given to allow future recognition.","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135596076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2023.2023-03
Jaimee Joiner, Matthew Campbell, James Haddy, Anthony Courtney
Theodore’s threadfin bream (Nemipterus theodorei) and the yellow-lip butterfly bream (Nemipterus aurifilum) are two of the most common nemipterids in eastern Queensland. These two species are caught incidentally and at times retained for sale as ‘permitted’ species in Australia’s largest trawl fishery, the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery (QECOTF). Despite their prevalence, little biological information is available for these species. This paper reports key life-history characteristics of these nemipterids. Growth and length-at-maturity parameters were estimated from samples collected in southern Queensland. Growth parameters were estimated using back-calculation of fork length (FL) from otolith increment data and modelled within a Bayesian framework to overcome bias resulting from the small number of larger, older animals in the retained bycatch. The von Bertalanffy growth function (VBGF) was identified as the most appropriate growth model with significant differences in sex-specific growth rates evident for both species. Maximum ages were six and four years for N. theodorei and N. aurifilum respectively, with individuals maturing within their first year of life. The length-at-maturity for females was 91 mm FL and 77 mm FL for N. theodorei and N. aurifilum respectively. Increased reproductive activity was observed in the austral spring and summer months. The results from this study can be used to assess the ecological risk posed to these species by the QECOTF.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2023.2023-02
Patrick Couper, Nancy FitzSimmons, Siobhan Houlihan, Andrew Amey, Duncan Limpus, Colin Limpus
We report on Caretta caretta x Chelonia mydas hybrid hatchlings that emerged from successive nests laid by a female Loggerhead Turtle (C. caretta) at Mon Repos, south-east Queensland, during the 1990–91 breeding season. We provide details of the parent female’s breeding history, which includes multiple paternity and genetic confirmation of her hybrid offspring. Three hybrid hatchlings were raised in captivity to assess whether scalation could be used to identify hybrid turtles in field studies. One captive hybrid died at 29 years of age, allowing an assessment of its reproductive status and examination of its skeletal anatomy. Two of the captive individuals were determined to be infertile. The reproductive status of the third individual was not determined. The external and skeletal morphology of the hybrids is discussed and illustrated. We show that atypical symmetrical scalation is diagnostic for C. caretta x C. mydas hybrids, as are various buccal and skeletal characters.
我们报道了1990-91年繁殖季节，一只雌性红海龟(C. Caretta)在昆士兰州东南部的Mon Repos连续产卵的巢中出现的Caretta Caretta x Chelonia mydas杂交幼龟。我们提供了母本繁殖史的详细信息，其中包括多父性和她的杂交后代的遗传确认。在圈养条件下饲养了3只杂交幼龟，以评估在野外研究中是否可以使用缩放法来识别杂交龟。一只圈养混血儿在29岁时死亡，这使得人们可以对其生殖状况进行评估，并对其骨骼解剖结构进行检查。其中两只被捕获的个体被确定为不育。第三个个体的生殖状况尚未确定。讨论并说明了杂交种的外部和骨骼形态。我们表明，非典型对称鳞片是诊断C. caretta x C. mydas杂种，因为是各种口腔和骨骼特征。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2022.2020-12
A. Amey, P. Couper
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Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2022.2021-05
J. Stanisic
Two syntypes of the mid-east Queensland charopid, Helix iuloidea Forbes, 1852, presumed to be mis-placed, were located by the author in the mollusc collections of the Natural History Museum, London. These specimens had been mistakenly catalogued under the name Helix juloidea. The historical use of H. juloidea in 19th and early 20th century malacological literature is detailed and possible origin of this invalid name is proposed. A lectotype for Helix iuloidea Forbes, 1852 is designated herein.
{"title":"Designation of a lectotype for Helix iuloidea Forbes, 1852 and a history of the citation of the invalid name Helix juloidea for this species by various authors (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Charopidae)","authors":"J. Stanisic","doi":"10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2022.2021-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2022.2021-05","url":null,"abstract":"Two syntypes of the mid-east Queensland charopid, Helix iuloidea Forbes, 1852, presumed to be mis-placed, were located by the author in the mollusc collections of the Natural History Museum, London. These specimens had been mistakenly catalogued under the name Helix juloidea. The historical use of H. juloidea in 19th and early 20th century malacological literature is detailed and possible origin of this invalid name is proposed. A lectotype for Helix iuloidea Forbes, 1852 is designated herein.","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73924041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.64.2022.2021-03
J. Stanisic
A new genus and three new species of Charopidae (Pinwheel Snails) from differing habitats in Queensland and New South Wales are described: Bindiropa irwinae gen. et sp. nov. from the Carnarvon Gorge Section of Carnarvon National Park, south-central Queensland; Stanisicaropa covidurnus sp. nov. from St Bees Island, mid-eastern Queensland; and Gyrocochlea occidentalis sp. nov. from the western Border Ranges, south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales. An additional putative Gyrocochlea species from the Richmond Range, north-eastern New South Wales, represented by a single damaged shell, is figured but not described.
描述了来自昆士兰州和新南威尔士州不同生境的风车蜗牛科(风车蜗牛)一新属和三新种:Bindiropa irwinae gen. et sp. 11 .来自昆士兰州中南部卡纳封国家公园卡纳封峡谷剖面;来自昆士兰州中部圣比斯岛的11月Stanisicaropa covidurnus;来自西部边境山脉、昆士兰东南部和新南威尔士东北部的西方陀螺仪(Gyrocochlea occidentalis sp. 11)。来自新南威尔士州东北部里士满山脉的另一种假定的Gyrocochlea物种，以单个损坏的壳为代表，被描绘但没有描述。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.63.2022.2022-01
Mehdi Joseph-Ouni, A. White, Ian Smales, Ross Saddlier, J. Cann, W. Mccord, P. Couper, A. Amey
Thomson et al. (1997) proposed that the extant Elseya from the Nicholson-Gregory drainages in northwestern Queensland was conspecific with the holotype of Elseya lavarackorum, which comprised a fossil carapace and associated plastron excavated from the late Pleistocene Terrace Site at Riversleigh. Analysis of additional fossil material, and examination of a suite of 16 scute characters (eight for each of the carapace and plastron) by Joseph-Ouni et al. (2020) concluded that the two species were distinct and represented separate Elseya lineages and proposed the new name Elseya oneiros for the extant lineage. Recently, the Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (TTWG) in their 9th edition Checklist of Turtles of the World (TTWG 2021) questioned the status of E. oneiros and placed it in the synonymy of E. lavarackorum, making the claim, amongst others, that the skeletal characters of Thomson et al. (1997) were not addressed. Here we fully address the claims made and evaluate those skeletal characters. We also assess an additional nine thoracic skeletal characters of the pertinent Elseya species, including E. dentata sensu stricto. The results again do not support the conclusions of Thomson et al. (1997) of the holotype of Elseya lavarackorum being conspecific with the extant Elseya from the Nicholson-Gregory Rivers, reaffirms the proposal offered by Joseph-Ouni et al. (2020) for the placement of E. lavarackorum in the subgenus Elseya, and the status of E. oneiros in the Nicholson-Gregory drainages as a distinct species.
Thomson等人(1997)提出，昆士兰州西北部Nicholson-Gregory流域现存的Elseya与Elseya lavarackorum的原型是同一类型的，后者包括从Riversleigh晚更新世阶地遗址出土的化石甲壳和伴生板。Joseph-Ouni et al.(2020)对额外的化石材料进行了分析，并对16个鳞片特征(每个甲壳和板甲各8个)进行了检查，得出结论认为这两个物种是不同的，代表了不同的爱思雅谱系，并为现存的谱系提出了新的名称Elseya oneiros。最近，海龟分类工作组(TTWG)在其第9版《世界海龟清单》(TTWG 2021)中对E. oneiros的地位提出了质疑，并将其置于E. lavarackorum的同义词中，并声称除其他外，汤姆森等人(1997)的骨骼特征没有得到解决。在这里，我们完全解决所提出的要求，并评估这些骨骼特征。我们还评估了相关Elseya物种的另外9个胸骨特征，包括E. dentata sensu stricto。研究结果再次不支持Thomson et al.(1997)的结论，即完整型的lavarackorum与现存的Nicholson-Gregory Rivers中的Elseya属同属，并重申了Joseph-Ouni et al.(2020)提出的将E. lavarackorum置于Elseya亚属中的建议，以及E. oneiros在Nicholson-Gregory流域中作为一个独特物种的地位。
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.17082/J.2204-1478.62.2021.2020-11
A. Rix
Type and additional fossil insects from the Late Triassic Denmark Hill locality in Southeast Queensland, Australia, are held in the collections of the Queensland Museum (Brisbane), the Australian Museum (Sydney) and the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom (London). The history of these collections shows that they were the product of a concerted effort in the first two decades of the twentieth century to extract the fossils by Benjamin Dunstan, Queensland’s Chief Government Geologist, and to describe the fossils by Dunstan and Robin Tillyard, the foremost Australian entomologist of the time. They collaborated closely to document the late Triassic insects of Australia, at the same time as Dunstan carefully curated and organised both the official government collection of these insects for the Geological Survey of Queensland, and his own private collection. The death of the two men in the 1930s led to the sale by his widow of Dunstan’s private fossil collection (including type and type counterpart specimens) to the British Museum, and the donation of Tillyard’s by his widow to the same institution, in addition to some material that went to the Australian Museum. This paper documents the locations of all of the published specimens. The history of the Denmark Hill fossils (a site no longer accessible for collection) highlights the problems for researchers of the dispersal of holdings such as these, and in particular the separation of the part and counterpart of the same insect fossils. It also raises ethical questions arising from the ownership and disposal of private holdings of important fossil material collected in an official capacity.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.17082/J.2204-1478.63.2021.2020-07
J. Wilkinson, Kristen D. Spring, T. L. Dunn, G. Price, Julien Louys
Since the mid-1840s a diverse fossil vertebrate assemblage, referred to as the Chinchilla Local Fauna, has been collected from the Pliocene deposits of the Chinchilla Sand on the western Darling Downs of South-East Queensland. In large part because of this long history and the numerous collectors who have worked fossil deposits in the area, much ambiguity regarding site and locality names and their specific coordinates exists. Here, we review the vertebrate fossil collection records in the Queensland Museum Fossil, Donor, Collector and Locality Registers, correspondence, and field notes in an effort to pinpoint the location of each named locality and site and develop a digital map which highlights the historical collecting sites at one significant locality in the Chinchilla area. To ensure that a systematic framework for all future collecting from the main collecting area (Chinchilla Rifle Range) is maintained, we recommend the use of consistent nomenclature for sites so that spatial information of the highest possible quality is captured into the future. We recommend future collections include detailed recordings of stratigraphic contexts as well as GPS coordinates.
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