Pub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.59.2015.2015-02
P. Bishop
The extinct moa of New Zealand were an enigmatic group of flightless birds, some attaining gigantic size. To better understand the biomechanical consequences of their large size and unique anatomy on stance and locomotion, a critical re-evaluation of the evidence for muscular attachment in the hindlimb of moa was undertaken. Three focal taxa, Dinornis robustus, Emeus crassus and Pachyornis elephantopus, were studied in detail, although other moa species were also addressed. More than one thousand individual bones from a diverse array of localities across the South Island of New Zealand were examined, and interpretations were made within the context of extant palaeognath birds. The interpretations and reconstructions produced largely concur with those of previous workers in many respects. The reconstructed myology of these moa species is also quite comparable to that in extant palaeognaths, although some important differences are hypothesised to exist. The most significant of these is that it moa are posited to have had a very well-developed iliotrochantericus caudalis in comparison to extant palaeognaths. Digital computer reconstruction of this muscle in an adult female D. robustus supports this hypothesis. The great development of the iliotrochantericus caudalis in moa may be related to their large size, or reflect a different locomotor behaviour compared to extant palaeognath species. Finally, a number of myology-related features have been identified that may prove useful in the taxonomic identification of isolated or poorly preserved bones.
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Pub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.17082/J.2204-1478.60.2016.2016-01
M. Baehr
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Pub Date : 2015-03-30DOI: 10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2015.2014-08
Stephen M. Taylor, Jeffrey W. Johnson, M. Bennett
Experimental gillnetting and setlining provided a detailed account of shark and ray composition at three shallow water sites in Moreton Bay between 2004 and 2007 (n=350 elasmobranchs). The species composition of elasmobranchs significantly differed between sites and shark abundance was highest at the western site (St Helena Island, Waterloo Bay). Juvenile Dusky (Carcharhinus obscurus) and Pigeye Sharks (C. amboinensis) were more abundant at the western site and appear to be rare in the eastern bay. Approximately 8% of the 206 tagged sharks were recaptured, 60% within two kilometres from their release position, with time at liberty ranging from four to 402 days. The results suggest that the documented east-west gradient in teleost diversity in Moreton Bay also extends to the Carcharhinidae. Further research is recommended to determine whether the diversity patterns observed from the three sites are broadly representative of each of these regions. Setlining and rod and line fishing for sharks in a deeper part of the bay between 1978 and 1992 (n=440 elasmobranchs) revealed a different species composition. The Spottail Shark (C. sorrah) and the Spinner Shark (C. brevipinna) comprised 50% and 39% of the catch in this deeper site, respectively, but were rarely caught in shallow regions of the bay, suggesting that the species composition is also partitioned by depth. Western fringes of the bay have been heavily modified by anthropogenic activities and the importance of this area to juvenile whaler sharks needs to be considered. Future sampling at the same fixed locations may provide the opportunity to examine whether recent re-zoning of the Marine Bay Marine Park in 2009, or other factors such as changes in commercial or recreational fishing, have influenced the species composition and abundance of sharks.
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Pub Date : 2015-02-20DOI: 10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2015.2013-04
H. T. Clifford, M. Dettmann, S. Hocknull
The inter-relationships between extant and selected extinct taxa of Araucariaceae were explored using thirty morphological and anatomical characters. The sample of Araucariacae included all three extant genera of the family with three extinct species of Araucaria and the fossil genera Emwadea and Wairarapaia. The data were analysed using phenetic and cladistic methodology which revealed there was close agreement between the two when applied to extant taxa but not to extant plus extinct taxa. All analyses recognised that the araucarioid taxa with embedded seeds formed a group separate from the agathoid taxa whose seeds at maturity separate from the seed-scale. However, whereas the parsimony (cladistic) analyses failed to distinguish clades within Araucaria the phenetic analyses recognised four Sections within the genus and placed the three fossil species of Araucaria in Sect. Eutacta. The fossil genera Emwadea and Wairarapaia united with Agathis and Wollemia. Araucariaceae, Wollemia, Emwadea, Wairarapaia, seed-cones, phylogeny. The description of Emwadea microcarpa Dettmann et al. (2012) based on permineralised seed-cones with preserved anatomy, from the mid-Cretaceous (late Albian) of western Queensland, adds to the data base of confirmed araucarian remains worldwide and supports the widely held view that during the Mesozoic and early Tertiary the family was more diverse than at present (Hill 1990; Cantrill 1992; Stockey 1994; Stockey et al. 1994; Pole 1995; Chambers et al. 1998; Hill & Brodribb 1999; Cantrill & Raine 2006; Dettmann et al. 2012) Whilst the araucarian affinities of many well preserved fossil seed-cones is not in doubt, their relationships with each other and with extant taxa has not been explored, until recently, by quantitative phenetic or cladistic analyses (Escapa & Catalano 2013). The extant Araucariaceae are represented by three genera Araucaria, Agathis and Wollemia (Farjon 2010), whose relationships have not been unambiguously established by cladistic studies based on gene sequencing data (Gilmore & Hill 1997; Stephanovic et al. 1998; Setoguchi et al. 1998; Codrington et al. 2002; Rai et al. 2008). Furthermore, these cladistic studies do not strongly support either the widely accepted four Sections into which extant Araucaria species were grouped by Wilde & Eames (1952) or the two Section grouping espoused by Laubenfels (1988). For example, whereas according to Setoguchi et al. (1998) Sect. Araucaria is the Clifford, Dettmann & Hocknull 28 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | Nature 2015 59 sister group to the clade Sects Bunya and Intermedia according to Gilmore & Hill (1997) it is the sister group to Sect. Eutacta. Such disparity may be a consequence of the current Sections being based on morphological and anatomical data derived from extant taxa and so do not take into account the structure of Mesozoic seed-cones that may share characters with more than one extant Section of Araucaria (Stockey 1994; Stockey et al. 19
这里已经被接受的说法是，胚珠起源于一个腋生复合体，腋生复合体被鳞片包围，每个胚珠无梗或顶生在或多或少发达的轴上，顶生在一对苞片中，苞片边缘融合形成被珠围绕着心。轴在被片苞片以下可以或不可以有侧面附属物。如果存在，这些附属物可能产生次级轴。Mathews & Kramer(2012)最近回顾的发育遗传学研究支持了这种锥体的模块化结构。虽然所有的胚珠都被假设直接从苞片的腋或腋生复合体中产生，但由于复合体或苞片基部的胚珠间分生组织的活性，它们可能看起来是从苞片的近轴表面而不是其实轴上产生的。苞片-胚珠复合体的解释只能通过对其本体发生的研究来解决。尽管成熟复合体中维管痕迹的模式可能反映了它们的个体发生，但这种假设不能先验地证明是正确的，因为原基，至少是胚珠的原基，可以从几乎任何组织中发育出来并产生自己的维管组织(Bouman in Johri 1984)。此外，伤口愈伤组织上不定芽的形成以及单个表皮细胞向胚珠的发育(Romberger et al. 1993)表明，维管组织的排列可能并不总是具有系统发育信息。然而，对“舌形”的解释就不太清楚了，这种解释仅限于胚珠总是倒立的种子鳞片。虽然人们普遍认为它起源于胚珠柄，但最近它被重新解释为胚轴的延伸(Dettmann et al. 2012)或柱头(Krassilov & Barinova 2014)。为了区分这些假设，舌舌的发展必须确定，但正如Tomlinson和Takaso(2002年，第1251页)所警告的那样，“如果假设部分现存和灭绝的Araucariaceae分类群是等价的，则必须调用异时性(即各部分之间发育时间的变化)和异位性(即特征的空间转移)，但只有在原始模型的相当大的人口中。”“由于这种发育的灵活性，”植物通过分生组织的调用变得如此转变，以至于期望能够识别一个假定祖先的所有结构是不现实的。(Tomlinson & Takaso 2002, p. 1272)。异时性的一个例子，如Tomlinson和Takaso(2002)所假设的，是Xyris和其他具有重瓣花被的单子花的萼片和花瓣轮生的反转(Remizowa etal . 2012)。许多针叶树的种子都有附属结构，这些附属结构被描述为齿(cryptoeria)、附属物(Cunninghamia)、假种皮(Taxus和Phyllocladus)或“舌叶”(Araucaria)。由于这些结构(舌部可能例外)都是在被盖的正下方产生的，因此它们被认为是同源的。由于针叶树缺乏明确的姊妹类群(Taylor et al. 2009, pp. 870-871)，进一步加剧了解释特征的难度。在文献中，这导致了对特征状态的相互矛盾的报告。下面两个例子说明了这个问题。金德尔(2001)给出的子叶数为4个，Laubenfels(1988)给出的子叶数为2-4个，或在基部有2个游离和2个融合对，或4个融合成2对。(Farjon 2010，第185页)。每胚珠鳞片的胚珠数也有类似的多样性报道。然而，Araucaria物种通常每个鳞片只有一个胚珠，有2个和3个胚珠的报道(Wilde & Eames 1955;Mitra 1927)。每个鳞片的胚珠数超过1个可能是畸形畸形，因此如果不认为是返祖现象，可以忽略不计。由于保存最好的化石分类群以胚珠球果为代表，它们提供了所研究的大部分特征。对于包含在分析中的14个分类单元中的每一个，在可用的情况下，整理了30个字符，其中每个化石分类单元至少有一个已知字符。引入这种结构是为了确保化石和现存的分类群不是不相关分类群的从头开始成员。性状及其状态见附录1，分类群及其性状得分见附录2。由于化石分类群缺乏可用的特征状态，因此仅使用简单的表型和系统发育方法来研究数据矩阵内的结构证据。前者基于相似性指数(si)，该指数定义为两个分类群共享字符的百分比，因此，当它们没有共享字符状态时，从0变化到相同时的100%。进行了两种类型的遗传学分析。 一种分析构建了一个星座图，其中具有任意高相似性值的分类群相互连接;另一种是用简单的距离度量和群平均作为聚类，形成树突图
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Pub Date : 2015-01-17DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.9.2015.2014-17
T. Hurley, S. Hurley
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.59.2015.2014-11
A. Baker, S. Dyck
We provide a taxonomic redescription of the dasyurid marsupial Swamp Antechinus, Antechinus minimus (Geoffroy, 1803). In the past, A. minimus has been classified as two subspecies: the nominate A. minimus minimus (Geoffroy, 1803), which is found throughout much of Tasmania (including southern Bass Strait islands) and A. minimus maritimus (Finlayson, 1958), which is found on mainland Australia (as well as some near-coastal islands) and is patchily distributed in mostly coastal areas between South Gippsland (Victoria) and Robe (South Australia). Based on an assessment of morphology and DNA, we conclude that A. minimus is both distinctly different from all extant congeners and that the two existing subspecies of Swamp Antechinus are appropriately taxonomically characterised. In our genetic phylogenies, the Swamp Antechinus was monophyletic with respect to all 14 known extant congeners; moreover, A. minimus was well-positioned in a large clade, together with all four species in the Dusky Antechinus complex, to the exclusion of all other antechinus. Within A. minimus, between subspecies there were subtle morphological differences (A. m. maritimus skulls tend to be broader, with larger molar teeth, than A. m. minimus, but these differences were not significant); there was distinct, but only moderately deep genetic differences (3.9–4.5% at mtDNA) between A. minimus subspecies. Comparatively, across Bass Strait, the two subspecies of A. minimus are morphologically and genetically markedly less divergent than recently recognised species pairs within the Dusky Antechinus complex, found in Victoria (A. mimetes) and Tasmania (A. swainsonii) (9.4–11.6% divergent at mtDNA)
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Pub Date : 2014-12-23DOI: 10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2014-02
H. Rose, Jake Walker, J. Woodward
Five new species of soil burrowing Geoscapheinae are described from Queensland: Macropanesthia intermorpha, M. lineopunctata, M. mutica, M. spuritegmina, and Neogeoscapheus hanni. Redescriptions of subfamilies Panesthiinae and Geoscapheinae are given, and a key to the genera of Geoscapheinae and keys to species of Macropanesthia and Neogeoscapheus are provided. Blattodea, Blaberidae, Geoscapheinae, Panesthiinae, Australian ground burrowing cockroaches Within the cockroach family Blaberidae, the subfamily Geoscapheinae is an Australian endemic group of cockroaches living in perm anent burrows in sandy or loamy soils; their diet is dry leaves. The subfamily Panesthiinae occurs in India, Tibet, China, Japan, South East Asia, the island of New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia and some Pacific islands; most feed on rotting wood and two species are known to feed on dry leaves. The two subfamilies have close genetic affinities (Maekawa et al., 2003). Morphologically, the two subfamilies are very similar and the taxonomic division is based on two characters. The first is related to the absence of wings or tegmina in Geoscapheinae, and their presence or absence in Panesthiinae. Those Panesthia lacking wings or tegmina were differentiated from Geoscapheinae using the second character which relates to the laterocaudal angle of tergite 7. Roth (1977) differentiated Australian Panesthia from Geoscapheinae mainly on the basis of the laterocaudal angle of tergite 7: in Panesthiinae, if such a process is produced, it is directed caudally and not upwards, whereas in Geoscapheinae this process is ‘directed laterally or obliquely, and slightly or strongly dorsad’. This character was no longer useful in 1994 when Walker et al. described new species of Geoscapheinae, one of which had laterocaudal angles of tergite 7 produced acutely and directed ventrocaudally. In this paper we describe five new species of Geoscapheinae, one with processes at the laterocaudal angle of tergite 7 only very weakly produced, and we have therefore modified the descriptions of Australian Panesthiinae and Geoscapheinae to accommodate all known species. Herein are four new species of Macropanesthia from central and northern Rose, Walker & Woodward 12 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | Nature 2014 59 Queensland and one new Neogeoscapheus from northern Queensland, bringing the total number of Geoscapheinae to 24. Keys to Macropanesthia and Neogeoscapheus from Walker et al. (1994) have been modified. These are for adult specimens only, but may also be effective when applied to some late instar nymphs. Measurements are in millimetres and scale bars represent 5 mm. In descriptions of males, measurements of the holotype are given and those of paratypes are in brackets. Measurements of females refer to paratypes. Numbers of paratypes measured are in brackets. Terminology used for male genital phallomeres is that of McKittrick (1964) and Roth (1977).
报道了澳大利亚昆士兰州土壤穴居地蕨科5个新种:Macropanesthia intermorpha、m.lineopunctata、m.m utica、m.s spuritegmina和Neogeoscapheus hanni。重新描述了Panesthiinae和geoscapheae亚科，并给出了geoscapheae属和macropanesia和Neogeoscapheus种的关键字。小蠊科，小蠊科，大蠊亚科，澳洲地穴居蟑螂小蠊科，小蠊亚科是澳大利亚特有的一种蟑螂，生活在沙质或壤土中的永久洞穴中;它们的食物是干树叶。Panesthiinae亚科分布于印度、西藏、中国、日本、东南亚、新几内亚岛、印度尼西亚、澳大利亚和一些太平洋岛屿;大多数以腐烂的木头为食，已知有两种以干树叶为食。这两个亚家族具有密切的遗传亲缘关系(Maekawa et al.， 2003)。在形态上，两个亚科非常相似，并根据两个特征进行分类。第一个是与Geoscapheinae中翅膀或tegmina的缺失以及Panesthiinae中翅膀或tegmina的存在或缺失有关。利用与红土石7的侧尾角有关的第二个性状，将无翅或无舌的panesia与Geoscapheinae进行了区分。Roth(1977)区分澳大利亚Panesthia和Geoscapheinae主要基于红土的侧尾角7:在Panesthiinae中，如果产生了这样一个过程，它是指向尾端而不是向上的，而在Geoscapheinae中，这个过程是“指向横向或斜向的，轻微或强烈的背侧”。这一特征在1994年Walker等人描述的Geoscapheinae新种中不再有用，其中一种红土7的侧尾角产生尖锐，并指向腹侧。在本文中，我们描述了5个新的Geoscapheinae种，其中一个在红土石7的侧尾角处的过程非常弱，因此我们修改了澳大利亚Panesthiinae和Geoscapheinae的描述，以适应所有已知的物种。这里有4个来自中部和北部Rose的Macropanesthia新种，Walker & Woodward 12 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | Nature & 2014 & 59 Queensland，以及1个来自昆士兰州北部的Neogeoscapheus新种，使geoscapheae总种数达到24个。对Walker et al.(1994)的Macropanesthia和Neogeoscapheus的关键字进行了修改。这些只适用于成虫，但对一些后期若虫也可能有效。测量单位为毫米，比例尺代表5毫米。在对男性的描述中，给出了全型的测量值，而异型的测量值在括号中。女性的测量参照异型。所测量的异型数在括号内。男性生殖器阴茎的术语是McKittrick(1964)和Roth(1977)的。
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Pub Date : 2014-11-07DOI: 10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2014-1
A. Mcnab, M. G. Sanders
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Pub Date : 2014-11-07DOI: 10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2013-06
Garrick Hitchcock, Simon D. Conaty, D. Fell, G. Gordon, M. Ingram, T. Reis, D. J. Stanton, John N. Wigness
Until recently there have been no confirmed records of medium-sized native terrestrial mammals from the Torres Strait Islands, far north Queensland. The Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus Shaw, 1792) and the Northern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus Gould, 1842) are reported here occurring on Mua (Moa Island). This is the most northerly known occurrence of these species in Australia; both also occur in New Guinea. Echidna, Bandicoot, Torres Strait Islands, refugial fauna, translocation, dispersal.
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Pub Date : 2014-11-01DOI: 10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2013-05
Ian Sobbe, G. Price
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