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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1914 William Anderson William Anderson. Note on the occurrence of the sand-rock containing bones of extinct species of marsupials (Emu, Kangaroo, Wombat, etc.,) on King Island, Bass Strait, Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 275-284.
1914 Journal Records of the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract During a recent visit ...   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 ...
1941 T. Harvey Johnston; P. M. Mawson T. Harvey Johnston; P. M. Mawson. Some parasitic nematodes in the collection of the Australian Museum. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 9-16.
Troughton while visiting South Australia on a collecting trip on behalf of the Museum. ... locality, parasites identified, and Museum registered number, are as follows:   Download Complete Work ...
1955 Harold O. Fletcher Harold O. Fletcher. Graptolite localities of the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 229-237.
The information embodied in this report was gained during several visits to the Snowy Mountains with ... The information embodied in this report was gained during several visits to the Snowy Mountains with ...   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 ...
1906 Alfred J. North Alfred J. North. On two early Australian ornithologists. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 121-128.
Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract John William Lewin was the author of the first work ... and others in an exploring expedition up the Hunter and Paterson Rivers, the latter previous to the visit ... "   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 ...
1901 Edgar R. Waite Edgar R. Waite. Additions to the fish-fauna of Lord Howe Island, No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 36-47.
Frank Farnell, Honorary Visiting Magistrate to the island. ...   Download Complete Work ...
1896 F. A. A. Skuse F. A. A. Skuse. Description of a Dapanoptera from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 106-110.
Professor Bell, a celebrated authority on British Crustacea, visiting   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 ...
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 ...
1947 Joyce K. Allan Joyce K. Allan. Nudibranchia from the Clarence River Heads, north coast, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 433-463.
Australian Museum Abstract In June, 1941, the Clarence River Heads, north coast of New South Wales, were visited ...   Download Complete Work ...
1989 M. Pietrusewsky M. Pietrusewsky. A study of skeletal and dental remains from Watom Island and comparisons with other Lapita people. Records of the Australian Museum 41: 235-292.
The teeth, slightly to moderately worn, are small, caries free and exhibit periodontal disease. ...   Download Complete Work ...
1916 Alfred J. North Alfred J. North. The birds of Coolabah and Brewarrina, north-western New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 11: 121-162.
we except a small gilguy or soak here and there, but which had entirely dried up at the time of my visit ...   Download Complete Work ...
1930 Arthur A. Livingstone Arthur A. Livingstone. On some new and little-known Australian asteroids. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 15-24.
Clark's time was short when he visited the Australian Museum in November of 1929, he did not have an ...   Download Complete Work ...
2012 Michael Batley; Terry F. Houston Michael Batley; Terry F. Houston. Revision of the Australian bee genus Trichocolletes Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Paracolletini). Records of the Australian Museum 64: 1-50.
Keys to species are provided for both sexes, as are distribution maps and a summary of recorded floral visitation ...   Download Complete Work ...
1943 W. Boardman W. Boardman. On a collection of Oligochaeta from the Jenolan Caves District, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 168-178.
Michaelsen, who visited the area in the summer of 1905, secured a single example of a Notoscolex, but ...   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 ...
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 ...
1964 Gilbert P. Whitley Gilbert P. Whitley. Fishes from the Coral Sea and the Swain Reefs. Records of the Australian Museum 26: 145-195.
and reefs in or near the Coral Sea to the east of Queensland are very remote and few zoologists have visited ... are described or figured in this paper in association with the 577 fishes obtained during the brief visit ...   Download Complete Work ...
1897 W. J. Rainbow W. J. Rainbow. The insect fauna of Funafuti. IV. The insect fauna. Australian Museum Memoir 3: 89-104.
" The eleven species of moths taken by Woodford during his visit to the Gilbert Islands in 1884 ...   Download Complete Work ...
1889 A. S. Olliff A. S. Olliff. The insect fauna of Lord Howe Island. Australian Museum Memoir 2: 77-98.
Etheridge's party, which visited the island, at the instance of the Trustees of that Institution ...   Download Complete Work ...
1961 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. The rock-engravings of Depuch Island, north-west Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 121-148.
No natives were seen, but fireplaces and newly-broken pieces of basalt proved that they visited the island ...   Download Complete Work ...
1956 Gilbert P. Whitley Gilbert P. Whitley. Fishes from inland New Guinea. Records of the Australian Museum 24: 23-30.
Ellis Le Geyt Troughton and Norman Camps, of the Australian Museum, visited inland New Guinea and secured ...   Download Complete Work ...
1929 C. Anderson C. Anderson. Palaeontological notes no. 1. Macropus titan Owen and Thylacoleo carnifex Owen. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 35-49.
On a recent visit to the Wellington Caves, New South Wales, a well known depository of fossil marsupials ...   Download Complete Work ...
1913 W. J. Rainbow W. J. Rainbow. Arachnida from the Solomon Islands. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 1-16.
Froggatt paid a flying visit to this interesting archipelago, and while there collected such Arachnida ...   Download Complete Work ...
1995 J. K. Lowry; H. E. Stoddart J. K. Lowry; H. E. Stoddart. The Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Madang Lagoon: Lysianassidae, Opisidae, Uristidae, Wandinidae and Stegocephalidae. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 22: 97-174.
Three free-living species (Paralysianopsis padoz, Parawaldeckia lowryi Myers, 1985 and Pseudambasia acuticaudata ...   Download Complete Work ...
1906 Edgar R. Waite Edgar R. Waite. Descriptions of and notes on some Australian and Tasmanian fishes. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 194-210.
I paid almost daily visits to the Melbourne Fish Markets and also collected on the coast, principally ...   Download Complete Work ...
1899 Charles Hedley Charles Hedley. The Mollusca of Funafuti. (Supplement). Australian Museum Memoir 3: 547-565.
Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract In the year 1897, a second, and in 1898, a third expedition visited ...   Download Complete Work ...
1935 Ellis Le G. Troughton Ellis Le G. Troughton. A new genus and species of Giant Rat from the Solomons. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 259-262.
During a visit to the Museum early in 1934, Father Poncelet made enquiries regarding collecting possibilities ... of such numbers and variety that considerable time must elapse before the material can be thoroughly worked ... One can only hope that all future work upon the mammals, and fauna generally, may provide illustrations ...   Download Complete Work ...
1899 Edgar R. Waite Edgar R. Waite. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis". Australian Museum Memoir 4: 3-128.
The only observations made in our coastal waters for scientific purposes have resulted from the visits ... institutions, and one need but look to the publications of their staffs to realise the amount of valuable work ... To those interested I would recommend a perusal of the admirable work by Mr. J. T. ... …   Download Complete Work ...
1981 R. M. McDowall; R. S. Frankenberg R. M. McDowall; R. S. Frankenberg. The galaxiid fishes of Australia (Pisces: Galaxiidae). Records of the Australian Museum 33: 443-605.
Some species are free-ranging in pools and lakes. ...   Download Complete Work ...
1899 Charles Hedley Charles Hedley. XVII. The Mollusca. Part I. Gasteropoda. Australian Museum Memoir 3: 395-488.
Graeffe, who visited most of the atolls in the interest of the Godeffroy Museum. ...   Download Complete Work ...
1953 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. The snake-woman, Jiningbirna. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 105-110.
the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract This site was recorded in 1948, when I visited ...   Download Complete Work ...
1937 T. Iredale T. Iredale. Notes on neozelanic deepwater marine Mollusca. Records of the Australian Museum 20: 103-107.
"Kalingo", regularly visiting the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, has brought ...   Download Complete Work ...
1950 Harold O. Fletcher Harold O. Fletcher. Trilobites from the Silurian of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 22: 220-233.
The author visited the locality later and collected additional specimens of all the described species ...   Download Complete Work ...
1976 J. Broadbent; S. Clark J. Broadbent; S. Clark. A Faunal Survey of East Australian Rainforests. Studies by the Australian Museum in Mid-eastern and North-eastern Queensland and Northern New South Wales. Published by the Australian Museum, Sydney 0: 1-132.
The recreational value of rainforests can be gauged from the estimate that some 59,000 people visited ...   Download Complete Work ...
2005 Stan Florek Stan Florek. The Torres Strait Islands collection at the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 19: 1-96.
Such work presented a perfect opportunity to revisit the idea of a Torres Strait catalogue. ... This work evolved to encompass collection research, supported and encouraged by the consecutive Collection ... My visit to Torres Strait was facilitated, with great hospitality, by Leilani Bin-Juda, Ron Day with ... well-documented part of the collection, over 60 per cent, is from Mer (Murray Island), and therefore this work ...
2023 Penelope B. Berents Penelope B. Berents. Obituary—Dr Jim Lowry. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 301-302.
Much of this work was carried out at Palmer Station, a United States Antarctic research station on Anvers ... many contacts in Antarctic research to secure berths on ice breakers and other vessels to allow Jim to work ...   Download Complete Work ...
2026 Thomas J. Wood Thomas J. Wood. Revision of the bee subgenus Amegilla (Asaropoda) Cockerell, 1926 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in New Guinea. Records of the Australian Museum 78: 107-117.
This work increases the number of Amegilla (Asaropoda) species to 24, confirms their presence in New ...   Download Complete Work ...
2023 Lauren Elizabeth Hughes; Shane T. Ahyong; Penelope B. Berents Lauren Elizabeth Hughes; Shane T. Ahyong; Penelope B. Berents. The contribution of J. K. Lowry (1942–2021) to amphipod systematics: new and revisionary taxonomy. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 311-328.
The present work provides a complete list of Jim Lowry’s scientific publications along with the new taxa ...   Download Complete Work ...
2026 Elena K. Kupriyanova; Francesco Criscione; Guillemine Daffe; Pat Hutchings; Nicolas Lavesque; Anna Murray; Hannelore Paxton; Nataliya Budaeva Elena K. Kupriyanova; Francesco Criscione; Guillemine Daffe; Pat Hutchings; Nicolas Lavesque; Anna Murray; Hannelore Paxton; Nataliya Budaeva. New species of Annelida of the Australian Indian Ocean Territory (Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands) seamounts. Records of the Australian Museum 78: 139-186.
as belonging to undescribed species within a potential new genus, which will be addressed in future work ...   Download Complete Work ...
2025 Miguel Machado; Renato Augusto Teixeira Miguel Machado; Renato Augusto Teixeira. A place for everything, and everything in its place: A new genus for the spiny Australian crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae). Records of the Australian Museum 77: 271-283.
The present work is part of a long-term morphological study that aims to better understand and delineate ...   Download Complete Work ...
2024 Graham McLean Graham McLean. Sydney Basin in the Triassic—a review of the geology, flora and fauna, and ecosystems. The Hawkesbury Sandstone. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online 40: 1-44.
To place the collection in context, particularly for educators working with students, brief descriptions ...   Download Complete Work ...
2021 Paul Dickinson Paul Dickinson. Narrow margins: standardised manufacturing of obsidian stemmed tools as evidence for craft specialisation and social networks in mid-Holocene New Britain. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 34: 119-136.
tools, with implications for the nature of society at that time.The present study extends this previous work ... It proposes that a group of skilled artisans worked together to systematically produce standardised obsidian ...   Download Complete Work ...
2019 Val Attenbrow; Nina Kononenko Val Attenbrow; Nina Kononenko. Microscopic revelations: the forms and multiple uses of ground-edged artefacts of the New South Wales Central Coast, Australia. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 29: 1-100.
are the multiple activities for which the hatchets were used and the types of materials which they worked ... be almost restricted to the NSWCC.Basic functional data about the actions undertaken and materials worked ... Eighteen wear-types document use of ground-edged artefacts for working wood, skin and ochre, abrading ... and polishing bone, and as hammers and anvils in working stone. ...
2023 Alex D. Greenwood; David E. Alquezar-Planas; Philippa A. McKay; Baptiste Mulot; Geoffrey W. Pye; Amy Robbins; Cora L. Singleton; Rachael E. Tarlinton; Damien P. Higgins Alex D. Greenwood; David E. Alquezar-Planas; Philippa A. McKay; Baptiste Mulot; Geoffrey W. Pye; Amy Robbins; Cora L. Singleton; Rachael E. Tarlinton; Damien P. Higgins. Synthesis of discussions of the Second Koala Retrovirus Workshop, 2021. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online 38: 53-82.
strategy, interim measures for management, and support of research and management via initiation of working ...   Download Complete Work ...
2020 Editors—Julien Louys; Sue O’Connor; Kristofer M. Helgen Editors—Julien Louys; Sue O’Connor; Kristofer M. Helgen. Papers in honour of Ken Aplin. Records of the Australian Museum 72: 149-337.
Where most mammalogists would bring rat traps, Ken would bring a shovel, and he would get to work in ... Of course, his careful work as a systematist and anatomist also sprang from a career spent within the ... , the primary resource that biodiversity scientists use to develop their skills and undertake their work ...   Download Complete Work ...
2023 Graham McLean Graham McLean. The Sydney Basin in the Triassic—a review of the geology, flora and fauna, and ecosystems. The Narrabeen Group. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 39: 1-52.
framework within which future earth science researchers of the Sydney Basin in the Triassic Period can work ...   Download Complete Work ...
J. Brazier; T. Whitelegge J. Brazier; T. Whitelegge. Specimens obtained on a dredging trip in Port Jackson, Saturday, 30th May, 1890. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 84-88.
Records of the Australian Museum Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract   Download Complete Work ...