Australian Museum Journals

Since 1851 we have published academic journals to report discoveries made in our collections. Our serial titles contain peer-reviewed research articles on animal taxonomy, archaeology and geology.

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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 ... the same reason, the trawling fleet, another prolific source of interesting material, has not been working ... Nevertheless, consideration of the forms obtained from the Dundas dump, and the results of a few successful ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
1900 Edgar R. Waite Edgar R. Waite. The card-catalogue system adapted to museum requirements. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 217-218.
The card-catalogue system adapted to museum requirements Author Edgar R. ... Records of the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
1891 Charles Hedley Charles Hedley. On Hadra gulosa, Gould. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 196-197.
On p. 243, he transfers this extraordinary action to the credit of H. gulosa, for which, apparently on ...   Download Complete Work ...
1953 Charles Francis Laseron Charles Francis Laseron. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 33-54.
omitted either because of insufficient material, or because there was nothing new to add to the excellent work ... by my son John and myself in the last twenty years, and to my collecting partner must go most of the credit ...   Download Complete Work ...
1931 Gilbert P. Whitley Gilbert P. Whitley. Studies in ichthyology. No. 5. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 138-160.
" To this, McCulloch had appended a note in his card-index: "We have received a small specimen ...   Download Complete Work ...
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? ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
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.
Our work using cross reactive antibodies to examine behaviour of resting and stimulated koala T cells ... other marsupials to develop tools necessary to assess KoRV’s effects on koala immune function in free-ranging ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
1929 T. Hodge-Smith T. Hodge-Smith. The occurrence of Zeolites at Kyogle, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 279-290.
Woolnough visited the district in 1923 that it was known that this quarry was a prolific producer of ... Friend, visited the quarry with a view to collecting and examining the occurrence. ... The visit was made possible by the generosity of Mr. ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ... "   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
1941 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. An axe quarry at Moor Creek, Tamworth District, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 19-20.
informed me that there was an aboriginal axe quarry on his property, and in May, 1940, I was able to visit ... Powell, who was absent at the time of my visit. One of his employees, Mr. ... stones; several of these depressions occur beside one end of the outcrop, Places at which the aborigines worked ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
1901 T. Whitelegge T. Whitelegge. Description of a new hermit crab (Calcinus imperialis), from Lord Howe Island. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 48-51.
Numerous examples were obtained during the visit of Mr. R. Etheridge, Junr., Mr. J. A. ... During the visit of the "Thetis" to Lord Howe Island in March, 1898, Messrs. ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ... inhabiting shallow-water interstitial sediments by the absence of notochaetae   Download Complete Work ...
1983 A. J. Bruce A. J. Bruce. The pontoniine shrimp fauna of Australia. Australian Museum Memoir 18: 195-218.
Palaemoninae are conspicuous in tropical freshwater and temperate marine habitats and are almost entirely free-living ...   Download Complete Work ...
1990 Glenn S. Hunt Glenn S. Hunt. Hickmanoxyomma, a new genus of cavernicolous harvestmen from Tasmania (Opiliones: Triaenonychidae). Records of the Australian Museum 42: 45-68.
Free lateral sclerites are recorded for the first time in the Triaenonychidae and their significance ...   Download Complete Work ...
1956 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. Rock engravings of the Sydney-Hawkesbury District. Part 1: Flat Rocks Ridge: a Daruk ceremonial ground. Records of the Australian Museum 24: 37-58.
He visited the site (Group 6) during his work as a surveyor and had it reserved as a national monument ... I first visited Flat Rocks in 1947 with Mr. ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
1983 Wim Vader Wim Vader. Associations between amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda) and sea anemones (Anthozoa: Actiniaria). Australian Museum Memoir 18: 141-153.
Sex ratios are normal, sexual dimorphism small, and fecundity low compared to related free-living species ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
1992 George D. F. Wilson; Winston F. Ponder George D. F. Wilson; Winston F. Ponder. Extraordinary new subterranean isopods (Peracarida: Crustacea) from the Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 44: 279-298.
These features include free pleonites that are subequal except for an enlarged fifth pleonite, broad ...   Download Complete Work ...
1959 J. W. Evans J. W. Evans. The Peloridiidae of Lord Howe Island (Homoptera, Coleorrhyncha). Records of the Australian Museum 25: 57-62.
Although during the intervening years several entomologists have visited the island, so far as is known ... their particular interest and because of their significance from the point of view of zoogeography, a visit ...   Download Complete Work ...
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 ...   Download Complete Work ...
1897 T. Whitelegge T. Whitelegge. On Stichopus mollis, Hutton. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 50-.
Journal Records of the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract [No abstract given, the work ... begins as follows] During a recent visit to Eden, Dr. ...   Download Complete Work ...
2026 Frank Köhler; Jackson Waneagea; SaleLaefi; Betefanalamo; Ifibata; Luke Susufia; Ledison Fa`amae; David Esau; Fiaringi Made’e; Alex Fo’ori; Calvin Jimmy; Siosi Meke’; Peter Alabai; Masafi Alabai; Kobu John; Gibson Ipa; James Kukiabo; Wilson Langa; Asuari’i Kwaiofo; Dobata Mongabo; Bukele Alabai; Fane’eri’i Laete’esafi; John Laete’esafi; Harrison Nominiti; Jeverlyn Gesia; Raymond Guleabe’u; Tagwa Laete’esafi; Julie Esau; Telegeni Laete’esafi; Mamaniasusu Maabo; Dickson Kwaiofo; DyLin Tome; Mageni Frank Köhler; Jackson Waneagea; SaleLaefi; Betefanalamo; Ifibata; Luke Susufia; Ledison Fa`amae; David Esau; Fiaringi Made’e; Alex Fo’ori; Calvin Jimmy; Siosi Meke’; Peter Alabai; Masafi Alabai; Kobu John; Gibson Ipa; James Kukiabo; Wilson Langa; Asuari’i Kwaiofo; Dobata Mongabo; Bukele Alabai; Fane’eri’i Laete’esafi; John Laete’esafi; Harrison Nominiti; Jeverlyn Gesia; Raymond Guleabe’u; Tagwa Laete’esafi; Julie Esau; Telegeni Laete’esafi; Mamaniasusu Maabo; Dickson Kwaiofo; DyLin Tome; Mageni. Community-driven survey of land snails in three communal conservation areas in East Kwaio, Malaita, Solomon Islands.. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online 44: 1-8.
This report is based on three visits to the region in April 2019 and November 2023. ...   Download Complete Work ...
1910 Walter E. Roth Walter E. Roth. North Queensland Ethnography. Bulletin No. 15. Decoration, deformation, and clothing. Records of the Australian Museum 8: 20-54.
Each sex would have the entire limbs and body, except the genitalia, rendered free from hair by singeing ...   Download Complete Work ...
2002 J. K. Lowry; H. E. Stoddart J. K. Lowry; H. E. Stoddart. The Amaryllididae of Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea). Records of the Australian Museum 54: 129-214.
Amaryllidids form two natural groups: a presumed free-living deep-water group with a subquadrate mouthpart ...   Download Complete Work ...
1890 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. General notes made during a visit to Mount Sassafras, Shoalhaven District, by Messrs. R. Etheridge, Junr., and J.A. Thorpe. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 17-26.
General notes made during a visit to Mount Sassafras, Shoalhaven District, by Messrs. R. ... Records of the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract   Download Complete Work ...
1917 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. Palaeontologia Novae Cambriae Meridionalis—occasional descriptions of New South Wales fossils—No. 6. Records of the Australian Museum 11: 219-226.
In 1903 I visited the locality and found the surroundiug spoil heaps in a great measure composed of a ...   Download Complete Work ...
1941 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. Two pebble industry sites of Hoabinhien I type on the north coast of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 21-26.
Moreover, it appears probable that neither site has been visited previously by collectors. ...   Download Complete Work ...
1942 Martin F. Glaessner Martin F. Glaessner. The occurrence of the New Guinea Turtle (Carettochelys) in the Miocene of Papua. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 106-109.
The writer visited the locality in May, 1941. ...   Download Complete Work ...
1913 Dene B. Fry Dene B. Fry. On the status of Chelonia depressa, Garman. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 159-186.
It is natural that three of these, which occasionally visit the European coasts, should have been known ...   Download Complete Work ...
2021 Rhys Richards; Peter J. Matthews Rhys Richards; Peter J. Matthews. Barkcloth from the Solomon Islands in the George Brown Collection. 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: 245-258.
knowledge of their material foundations.Over three decades, from 1879 to 1911, the missionary George Brown visited ...   Download Complete Work ...
1891 T. Whitelegge T. Whitelegge. On the organism discolouring the waters of Port Jackson. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 144-147.
Year 1891 Journal Records of the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract I have visited ... At all the places I have visited, from Hunter's Hill, on the Parramatta River, down to Watson's Bay, ... The question as to how this vast destruction of shore life has   Download Complete Work ...
2004 Stephen D. Cairns Stephen D. Cairns. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 259-329.
method of attachment, and depth range: 187 species are colonial, 516 solitary; 373 are attached, 265 free ...   Download Complete Work ...
1953 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. A circumcision ceremony and stone arrangement on Groote Eylandt. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 97-103.
I witnessed this ceremony from beginning to end, and visited a group of cave paintings known as Jundurruna ...   Download Complete Work ...