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1931 T. Iredale T. Iredale. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 201-235.
The latter has also collected many specimens from the dredge dump at Dundas, and some interesting records ... Nash was placed in command of the dumping of the material at Dundas on the Parramatta River. ... Examination of the dump has revealed many interesting species and has shown that the tropical fauna was ...
1936 T. Iredale T. Iredale. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 267-340.
Abstract Many of the shells described in Australian Molluscan Notes, No. 1 were derived from dredgings dumped ... Nevertheless, consideration of the forms obtained from the Dundas dump, and the results of a few successful ...
2005 Stan Florek Stan Florek. The Torres Strait Islands collection at the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 19: 1-96.
Island Council Chairperson), Terrence Whap (Chairperson for Mabuiag Island Council until 2004), Leilani Bin-Juda ... My visit to Torres Strait was facilitated, with great hospitality, by Leilani Bin-Juda, Ron Day with ... I benefited greatly from conversations with Leilani Bin-Juda, who also guided me and supported in consultations ...
2019 Chris A. M. Reid; Ian Hutton Chris A. M. Reid; Ian Hutton. Citizen science and the art of discovery: new records of large Coleoptera from Lord Howe Island, July 2018. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 28: 1-16.
citizen science event was held on Lord Howe Island, 22–28 July 2018, with the objective of training non-scientist ... During the remainder of the week the authors conducted their own searches. 13 areas were visited altogether ...
1905 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. Description of the mutilated cranium of a large fish, from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 5-8.
Journal Records of the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract A comparatively recent visit ... close-grained argillaceous limestone forming the matrix, but below are weathered to a great extent free ...
1893 J. Douglas Ogilby J. Douglas Ogilby. Description of a new pelagic fish from New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 64-65.
of an unknown pelagic fish from New Zealand, being one of a consignment forwarded to the Company for sale ...
2014 Geoffrey W. Pye; Rebecca N. Johnson; Alex D. Greenwood Geoffrey W. Pye; Rebecca N. Johnson; Alex D. Greenwood. Koala Retrovirus Workshop conclusion. The future of KoRV research—foundational and applied. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 103-105.
international effort on KoRV that would directly help the sustainability and survival of both captive and free-ranging ... (3) Are there KoRV-free koalas? (4) What is the importance of the variants of KoRV? ... (7) What is the role of prevention and therapy in free-ranging and captive koalas? ...
1999 Glenn M. Shea; Ross A. Sadlier Glenn M. Shea; Ross A. Sadlier. A catalogue of the non-fossil amphibian and reptile type specimens in the collection of the Australian Museum: Types currently, previously and purportedly present. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 15: 1-91.
A catalogue of the non-fossil amphibian and reptile type specimens in the collection of the Australian ... Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract Full registration data for all identifiable non-fossil ...
2005 Walter E. Boles Walter E. Boles. A new flightless gallinule (Aves: Rallidae: Gallinula) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 57: 179-190.
Compared with four Quaternary species of Gallinula from Australasia (two volant, two non-volant), it ... These indicate that the Riversleigh species was non-volant. ...
2021 Susan M. Davies; Michael Quinnell Susan M. Davies; Michael Quinnell. Up close and personal: James Edge-Partington in Australia in 1897. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 34: 169-182.
Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract British ethnologist, collector and author, James Edge-Partington visited ... This paper outlines Edge-Partington’s 1879–1881 visit before focusing on his 1897 trip which included ... visits to five public museums and one university museum and produced more than 600 sketches of cultural ... The paper documents Edge-Partington’s visit to the Queensland Museum where he spent most of his time ...
2025 Michael Batley Michael Batley. Revision of the Australian bee subgenus Leioproctus (Euryglossidia) Cockerell, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Neopasiphaeinae). Records of the Australian Museum 77: 1-88.
species demonstrate continuous character variation from rough to polished integument, iridescent to non-iridescent ...
2014 Joanne Meers; Greg Simmons; Kiersten Jones; Daniel T. W. Clarke; Paul R. Young Joanne Meers; Greg Simmons; Kiersten Jones; Daniel T. W. Clarke; Paul R. Young. Koala retrovirus in free-ranging populations—prevalence. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 15-17.
Koala retrovirus in free-ranging populations—prevalence Author Joanne Meers; Greg Simmons; Kiersten Jones ... retrovirus (KoRV) provirus (DNA) and the average number of proviral insertions per cell vary in different free-ranging ...
1989 C. G. Turner C. G. Turner. Dentition of Watom Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Melanesia. Records of the Australian Museum 41: 293-296.
All teeth are free of dental caries, hinting that the Watom diet was not overly dependent on sticky carbohydrate ... All teeth are free of dental caries, hinting that the Watom diet was not overly dependent on sticky carbohydrate ...
1982 R. D. Simpson R. D. Simpson. Papers from the Echinoderm Conference. 3. The reproduction of some echinoderms from Macquarie Island. Australian Museum Memoir 16: 39-52.
Ovarian condition in Cycethra macquariensis suggested a non-pelagic development; however the mode of ... (Mortensen) (echinoid) showed a brooding habit in Pseudocnus and ovarian conditions that suggested non-pelagic ...
1992 A. J. Bruce A. J. Bruce. Two new species of Periclimenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Lizard Island, Queensland, with notes on some related taxa. Records of the Australian Museum 44: 45-84.
attenuatus Bruce, P. amboinensis (De Man), and on Parapontonia nudirostris Bruce, with remarks on some non-Australian ... specimens of Periclimenes, P. lanipes Kemp, P. pholeter Holthuis and P. consobrinus Balss (non De Man ...
1998 William R. Dickinson William R. Dickinson. Petrographic temper provinces of prehistoric pottery in Oceania. Records of the Australian Museum 50: 263-276.
Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract The mineralogical compositions and petrological character of non-calcareous ... temper sands derived from reef detritus are widely distributed, but ancient potters commonly preferred non-calcareous ...
2017 Harry E. Parnaby; Sandy Ingleby; Anja Divljan Harry E. Parnaby; Sandy Ingleby; Anja Divljan. Type specimens of non-fossil mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 69: 277-420.
Type specimens of non-fossil mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney Author Harry E. ... This is the first published list of non-fossil mammal types in the AM Collection since the publication ...
2004 David G. Smith David G. Smith. A new genus and species of congrid eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Congridae) from Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 143-146.
It belongs to the subfamily Congrinae and is characterized by a slender and flexible tail, a free flange ...
2023 Elena Kupriyanova; Beth Flaxman Elena Kupriyanova; Beth Flaxman. A new species of the mysterious genus Spirodiscus (Annelida: Serpulidae) of the eastern Australian abyss. In RV Investigator—Abyssal Annelida, ed. E. K. Kupriyanova and L. M. Gunton.. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 155-166.
Until now, only three serpulid species inhabiting free-lying polygonal tubes were reported from the deep ...
1985 Walter J. Bock Walter J. Bock. The skeletomuscular systems of the feeding apparatus of the Noisy Scrub-bird, Atrichornis clamosus (Passeriformes: Atrichornithidae). Records of the Australian Museum 37: 193-210.
Noteworthy are the large, free lacrymal and the distinct dorsal hump or ridge on the basal portion of ... Other than the large, free lacrymal, the skulls of the Menurae differ markedly from those of the bowerbirds ...
1993 Jim Specht Jim Specht. Additional evidence for pre-1788 visits by Pacific Islanders to Norfolk Island, south-west Pacific. In F.D. McCarthy, Commemorative Papers (Archaeology, Anthropology, Rock Art), ed. Jim Specht. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 17: 145-157.
Additional evidence for pre-1788 visits by Pacific Islanders to Norfolk Island, south-west Pacific. ... papers was a report of stone tools on Norfolk Island which he interpreted as evidence for pre-British visits ... paper describes further finds and concludes that the evidence is firmly in favour of Pacific Islanders visiting ... These visits originated in the East Polynesian area, possibly the Society or Cook Islands and New Zealand ...
2023 Kristofer M. Helgen; Rebecca K. Jones, editors Kristofer M. Helgen; Rebecca K. Jones, editors. Wallacean mammalogy and zooarchaeology. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 623-786.
The richness of life is not distributed haphazardly across the globe, but instead exhibits profound, non-random ...
1901 T. Whitelegge T. Whitelegge. Report on sponges from the coastal beaches of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 55-118.
The texture is soft, elastic, tough, and durable, and the main fibres are entirely free from foreign ... enumerating the contents of the main fibres, only four out of a total of sixty-one forms are given as being free ...
2024 Charlotte Watson; Laetitia M. Gunton; Elena K. Kupriyanova Charlotte Watson; Laetitia M. Gunton; Elena K. Kupriyanova. Three new species of bacterivorous Chrysopetalidae and Microphthalmidae (Annelida) inhabiting a whale fall off eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 76: 249-264.
Colonising the whale bones were a diverse assemblage of annelids including three new species of free-living ...
2014 Jon J. Hanger; Jo Loader Jon J. Hanger; Jo Loader. Disease in wild koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) with possible koala retrovirus involvement. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 19-29.
Museum Abstract A wide range of serious, and oftentimes fatal, conditions has been observed in both free-living ...
2023 Kristofer M. Helgen; Rebecca K. Jones Kristofer M. Helgen; Rebecca K. Jones. Wallacean mammalogy and zooarchaeology: remembrances and a renaissance. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 623-628.
The richness of life is not distributed haphazardly across the globe, but instead exhibits profound, non-random ...
2020 Stephen J. Richards; Stephen C. Donnellan Stephen J. Richards; Stephen C. Donnellan. Litoria aplini sp. nov., a new species of treefrog (Pelodryadidae) from Papua New Guinea. Records of the Australian Museum 72: 325-337.
The new species is unusual in being found calling from forest on limestone substrate where free-standing ...
1982 Eldon E. Ball Eldon E. Ball. Long Island, Papua New Guinea: European exploration and recorded contracts to the end of the Pacific War. Records of the Australian Museum 34: 447-461.
but the first reliable description of villages and the first contact with the people date from the visits ... Members of the German Sl1dsee Expedition visited the village of Soraga in 1909 and collected names which ... 1930's the ornithologist, William Coultas, spent several months on the island and there were periodic visits ... brought the islanders their most extensive contacts with the outside world as the island was first visited ...
2006 Daniel J. Bickel Daniel J. Bickel. Eugowra, a new fly genus from Australia (Empididae: Empidinae). Records of the Australian Museum 58: 119-124.
genitalic structure, with the hypandrium reduced to a narrow curved channel that barely covers a mostly free ...
2014 Laura S. Levy; Jeffrey D. Lifson Laura S. Levy; Jeffrey D. Lifson. Anti-retroviral drugs and vaccines. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 93-95.
, in particular, feline leukemia virus infection of the cat and AIDS virus infections of humans and non-human ...
2014 Damien P. Higgins; Quintin Lau; Iona Maher Damien P. Higgins; Quintin Lau; Iona Maher. Koala immunology and the koala retrovirus (KoRV). Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 35-38.
other marsupials to develop tools necessary to assess KoRV’s effects on koala immune function in free-ranging ...
2021 Alana Pengilley Alana Pengilley. Geochemistry and sources of stone tools in south-west New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 34: 25-45.
exchange of a range of stone tools from southwest West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea using a non-destructive ...
2014 Jeffrey D. Lifson Jeffrey D. Lifson. Prevention and treatment of koala retrovirus (KoRV) infection: lessons from studies of AIDS viruses in nonhuman primate models. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 65-69.
However, accumulating experience with the use of these medications in non-human primate (NHP) models ...
2004 Meredith Wilson Meredith Wilson. Rethinking regional analyses of western Pacific rock-art. In A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 29: 173-186.
The results of these analyses are then compared with models founded on consideration of non-motif variables ...
2017 Isabel T. Hyman; Frank Köhler Isabel T. Hyman; Frank Köhler. Attenborougharion gen. nov. (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Helicarionidae): a likely case of convergent evolution in southeastern Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 69: 65-72.
triangular shape of the pneumostome, the degree and type of folding present in the spermoviduct and free ...
2023 Laetitia M. Gunton; William Zhang; Elena Kupriyanova; Pat A. Hutchings Laetitia M. Gunton; William Zhang; Elena Kupriyanova; Pat A. Hutchings. New species of Melinna (Melinnidae, Annelida) from the Australian abyss with comments on M. albicincta, M. cristata and M. elisabethae. In RV Investigator—Abyssal Annelida, ed. E. K. Kupriyanova and L. M. Gunton.. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 125-154.
around 45 abdominal segments, dorsal membrane with 13–17 projections, four pairs of branchiae completely free ...
1988 John E. Randall; Douglass F. Hoese John E. Randall; Douglass F. Hoese. Apogon limenus, a new species of cardinalfish (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 40: 359-364.
them in details of coloration and the combination of fin ray, scale and gill-raker counts, serrate free ...
2015 Anna Zhadan Anna Zhadan. Cossuridae (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sedentaria) from Australian and adjacent waters: the first faunistic survey. Records of the Australian Museum 67: 1-24.
Cossura consimilis Read, 2000 was redescribed using non-type material. ...
2014 Baptiste Mulot Baptiste Mulot. Koala retrovirus related diseases in European zoo-based koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus). Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 51-54.
or are clearly not related to any infectious cause. 44% are due to neoplastic and opportunistic or non-opportunistic ...
1983 Diana R. Laubitz Diana R. Laubitz. A revision of the family Podoceridae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea). Australian Museum Memoir 18: 77-86.
genera are very closely related, with only minor differences between them; Icilius has proved to be non-corophioidean ...
1983 Erik Dahl Erik Dahl. Alternatives in malacostracan evolution. Australian Museum Memoir 18: 1-5.
The malacostracan dorsal shield is produced by a fusion of terga and a free carapace fold is sometimes ...
2017 Nancy Irwin Nancy Irwin. A new tube-nosed fruit bat from New Guinea, Nyctimene wrightae sp. nov., a re-diagnosis of N. certans and N. cyclotis (Pteropodidae: Chiroptera), and a review of their conservation status. Records of the Australian Museum 69: 73-100.
papuanus, of similar body-size, are morphologically distinguished using discriminant function analyses and non-metric ...
2023 Junn Kitt Foon; P. T. Green; Frank Köhler Junn Kitt Foon; P. T. Green; Frank Köhler. Delineating Paralaoma annabelli, a minute land snail impacted by the 2019–2020 wildfires in Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 51-64.
Yet, sequences of P. morti cluster closely with non-Australian sequences of the globally distributed ...
2025 Sharyn A. Wragg; Michael F. Braby Sharyn A. Wragg; Michael F. Braby. Systematics and phylogenetic relationships of the Australian Agaristinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) based on morphology, including a revised checklist of the subfamily. Records of the Australian Museum 77: 137-173.
Walker, 1865, Leucogonia Hampson, 1908, Argyrolepidia Hampson, 1901 and Idalima Turner, 1903 were all non-monophyletic ...
2007 C. N. Smithers C. N. Smithers. Lord Howe Island Psocoptera (Insecta). Records of the Australian Museum 59: 9-26.
Of the thirteen non-endemic species eight have widespread distributions beyond the island (some being ...
1982 Ailsa M. Clark Ailsa M. Clark. Papers from the Echinoderm Conference. 7. Inter-relationships of recent stalked, non-isocrinid Crinoidea. Australian Museum Memoir 16: 121-128.
Inter-relationships of recent stalked, non-isocrinid Crinoidea Author Ailsa M. ...
2011 Paul Irish Paul Irish. Changing Perspectives in Australian Archaeology, part III. Hidden in plain view—the Sydney Aboriginal Historical Places Project. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 23: 31-44.
archaeology is a relatively new but growing discipline in Australia, though most work has been focussed on non-urban ...
2022 Dion Hobcroft Dion Hobcroft. The mammals of Kumul Lodge, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, with notes on Calaby’s Pademelon Thylogale calabyi. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 37: 1-8.
Australian Museum (online) Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract Over a period of 14 years (2006–2019) 15 visits ...
2004 Robin Torrence Robin Torrence. Pre-Lapita valuables in island Melanesia. In A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 29: 163-172.
case of axes in the Highlands of New Guinea, stemmed artefacts were therefore both useful tools and non-utilitarian ...
1893 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. Geological and ethnological observations made in the valley of the Wollondilly River, at its junction with the Nattai River, counties Camden and Westmoreland. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 46-54.
Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract The following observations were made during a short visit ... Wollondilly and Nattai Rivers, to further examine some interesting phenomena noticed during a previous visit ...