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1907 R. Etheridge; T. Whitelegge R. Etheridge; T. Whitelegge. Aboriginal workshops on the coast of New South Wales, and their contents. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 233-250.
for generations the blacks of the Port Jackson District must have manufactured chips, splinters and points ...
2018 Michel Lorblanchet Michel Lorblanchet. Lorblanchet, Michel. 2018. General introduction to the research at Dampier. Chapter 1. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 27: 47-58.
Chapter 1 Author Michel Lorblanchet Year 2018 Journal Technical Reports of the Australian Museum (online ... Ward and Ken Mulvaney, chapter 1, pp. 47–58. ... Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 27: 1–690. ...
1985 J. Jeffrey Flenniken; J. Peter White J. Jeffrey Flenniken; J. Peter White. Australian flaked stone tools: a technological perspective. Records of the Australian Museum 36: 131-151.
We examine major classes of Australian flaked stone artefacts—adzes, backed artefacts, burins, points ...
1937 T. Iredale T. Iredale. Rediscovery of Voluta brazieri Cox. Records of the Australian Museum 20: 128-129.
years later the unique type passed into the collection of the British Museum, and Smith wrote a note pointing ... additions to our local faunula, travelled to Forster, near Cape Hawke, and there secured many species from Point ...
1977 Isabel McBryde Isabel McBryde. Some wooden artefacts from the north coast of NSW: new archeological and ethnographic data. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 660-671.
They include one boomerang from the Clarence River at Grafton, and a boomerang and one point from a multi-pronged ...
2024 Roger T. Springthorpe; Lauren E. Hughes Roger T. Springthorpe; Lauren E. Hughes. Re-description of Chevalia aviculae Walker, 1904, five new species and new records of Chevaliidae from Australia and New Zealand (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda: Senticaudata). Records of the Australian Museum 76: 157-194.
contains two genera: Chevalia Walker, 1904 (13 species), and Bryoconversor Lörz, Myers & Gordon, 2014 (1 ... Material reported is from both shallow and deep-water samples from 1–660 m depth. ...
1996 Kate Khan Kate Khan. Catalogue of the Roth Collection of Aboriginal artefacts from north Queensland. Volume 2. Items collected from Cairns, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Cape Melville, Cardwell, Clump Point, Coen, Cooktown, Dunk Island, False Cape, Flinders Island, Hambledon, H. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 12: 1-189.
Items collected from Cairns, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Cape Melville, Cardwell, Clump Point, Coen, ...
1897 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. A spear with incised ornament from Angeldool, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 6-7.
nine inches long and two and a-half inches in its greatest circumference, tapering at both ends to a point ...
1896 F. A. A. Skuse F. A. A. Skuse. Stephanocircus, Sk.: a rejoinder. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 110-.
genus in his table of the genera of the Pulicidae as he evidently first wished to "verify all the points ...
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.
This demarcation is now known as the “Wallace Line” (Wallace, 1869, 1876; Fig. 1), and others later built ... Wallacean insights to identify additional “lines” of biogeographic significance in the archipelago (Fig. 1) ...
1932 Arthur A. Livingstone Arthur A. Livingstone. Some further notes on species of Tamaria (Asteroidea). Records of the Australian Museum 18: 368-372.
British Museum in order to have the descriptions compared with the actual specimens and the various points ...
1897 Alfred J. North Alfred J. North. On a new sub-species of Psophodes crepitans. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 13-.
the specimens collected at Boar Pocket at wide intervals are alike, I take the present opportunity of pointing ...
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.
This demarcation is now known as the “Wallace Line” (Wallace, 1869, 1876; Fig. 1), and others later built ... Wallacean insights to identify additional “lines” of biogeographic significance in the archipelago (Fig. 1) ...
1933 J. Roy Kinghorn J. Roy Kinghorn. A re-examination of two of Ramsay’s types of New Guinea owls. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 451-454.
order by the fourth, sixth, and third, while the second and seventh are almost equal, reaching to a point ...
1983 Erik Dahl Erik Dahl. Alternatives in malacostracan evolution. Australian Museum Memoir 18: 1-5.
The unsatisfactory status of the diagnosis of the superorder Peracarida is pointed out and a revision ...
1975 T. A. Garrard T. A. Garrard. A revision of Australian Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 30: 1-62.
), 1 in C. ... (Nevia), 8 (1 new, Cancellaria (Sydaphera) panamuna)in C. ... iota and Trigonostoma tessella) in Trigonostoma, 1 in Admetula, 3 (1 new, Gergovia haswelli) in Gergovia ... , 3 (1 new, Inglisella nympha) in Inglisella, 2 in Pepta, 1 in Vercomaris (new), 1 in Bonellitia, and ...
1893 J. Douglas Ogilby J. Douglas Ogilby. Description of a new shark from the Tasmanian coast. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 62-63.
of the snout and the spiracle: snout short and obtuse, the distance between its tip and the nearest point ...
2011 Richard Fullagar Richard Fullagar. Changing Perspectives in Australian Archaeology, part VIII. Burins, bones and base camps: a re-analysis of Aire Shelter 2, Glenaire, southern Victoria. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 23: 103-131.
base camp, the site is an infrequently used locale associated with hunting and the manufacture of bone points ...
2014 Takayuki Miyazawa Takayuki Miyazawa. Molecular characterization of koala retroviruses isolated from koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) reared in Japanese zoos. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 24: 47-50.
We also discovered a novel KoRV subgroup, named KoRV-J, which utilizes thiamine transport protein 1 as ... The original KoRV, which utilizes Pit-1 as an entry receptor, is now named KoRV-A. ... In two Queensland koalas examined, the copy numbers of KoRV-J was less than 1 copy per cell and varied ...
2018 Michel Lorblanchet Michel Lorblanchet. Lorblanchet, Michel. 2018. The Summit of Gum Tree Valley. Chapter 7. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 27: 557-668.
Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 27: 1–690. ... overall map of the site (Fig. 7.4) shows the locations of the carved blocks, which are numbered from 1– ... 102; the incidence of the stone artefacts, numbered from 1–379; and the small mass of shell fragments ...
1978 J. E. Downie; J. Peter White J. E. Downie; J. Peter White. Balof Shelter, New Ireland—report on a small excavation. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 762-802.
Artefacts from earlier levels include bone bi-points, flaked stone tools patterned similarly to those ...
2004 Barry Hutchins; Sue Morrison Barry Hutchins; Sue Morrison. Five new fish species of the genus Alabes (Gobiesocidae: Cheilobranchinae). Records of the Australian Museum 56: 147-158.
rudimentary pelvic fin, whereas the latter shows some similarities to A. parvula but possesses a more pointed ...
2007 David K. McAlpine David K. McAlpine. Review of the Borboroidini or Wombat Flies (Diptera: Heteromyzidae), with reconsideration of the status of families Heleomyzidae and Sphaeroceridae, and descriptions of femoral gland-baskets. Records of the Australian Museum 59: 143-219.
Difficulties in using male genitalia characters for higher classification are pointed out. ...
1986 Niel L. Bruce Niel L. Bruce. Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 6: 1-239.
species are recorded from Australian waters: Anopsilana (2 species), Bathynomus (3 species), Cartetolana (1 ... species), Orolana (30 species), Eurydice (8 species), Eurylana (1 species), Excirolana (1 species), Hansenolana ... (1 species), Metacirolana (7 species), Natatolana (31 species), Neocirolana (5 species), Orphelana ( ... 1 species), Pseudolana (7 species), and three new genera—Booralana (2 species), Dolicholana (1 ...
1946 Harold O. Fletcher Harold O. Fletcher. New Lamellibranchia from the Upper Permian of Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 395-405.
resemblance to Permian shells recently described from Madagascar by Astre (1934) and also have many points ...
1953 Frederick D. McCarthy Frederick D. McCarthy. The snake-woman, Jiningbirna. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 105-110.
snake-woman, Jiningbirna with her four children, came up out of a waterhole, Jininga-madja, on McComb's Point ...
1897 T. Whitelegge T. Whitelegge. The Crustacea of Funafuti. VI. The Crustacea. Australian Museum Memoir 3: 127-154.
various tribes are represented as follows: Cyclometopa, 24 species; Catometopa, 7 species; Oxystomata, 1 ... species; Anomura, 19 species; Macrura, 7 species; Stomatopoda, 1 species; Isopoda, 1 species; Epicaridea ... , 1 species; Cirripedia, 1 species. ...
2023 Masakuni Okazaki; Ko Tomikawa Masakuni Okazaki; Ko Tomikawa. A new species of the genus Rhachotropis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from Japan. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 507-514.
This new species differs from its congeners by the features of urosomite 1, pereopods 5–7 bases, uropod ...
1910 Walter E. Roth Walter E. Roth. North Queensland Ethnography. Bulletin No. 16. Huts and shelters. Records of the Australian Museum 8: 55-66.
North-West, coupled with the interlocking of a forked with a purposely-cracked stick at Brisbane, may point ...
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.
The men's hair, combed out with a pointed kangaroo bone, was allowed to grow long, and when necessary ...
1901 Edgar R. Waite Edgar R. Waite. Occasional notes. IV. Uronycteris cephalotes, Pallas. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 144-.
In his catalogue, Dobson used the name Harpyia, Illiger (1811), for this genus, but Ogilby pointed out ...
1929 Ellis Le G. Troughton; A. S. Le Souef Ellis Le G. Troughton; A. S. Le Souef. A new species of Ring-tailed Phalanger (Ps. laniginosus group) from the Bunya Mountains, S.E. Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 291-296.
Travelling 153 miles by train from Brisbane, via Toowoomba, to Dalby, which is the nearest point of importance ...
1897 T. Whitelegge T. Whitelegge. The Echinodermata of Funafuti. VII. The Echinodermata. Australian Museum Memoir 3: 155-164.
acutispinosa has been noticed at some length, and the non-specific value of external form has also been pointed ...
1998 K. L. Lamprell; J. M. Healy K. L. Lamprell; J. M. Healy. A revision of the Scaphopoda from Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 24: 1-189.
(38 including 16 new) Dentalium (Lentigodentalium) (3 including 2 new), Dentalium (Pictodentalium) (1) ... , Tesseracme (3 including 1 new), Fissidentalium (11 including 6 new), Graptacme (3 including 1 new); ... (2); Gadilinidae, Episiphon (4 including 2 new); Order Gadilida Entalinidae, Entalina (2 including 1 ... new), Bathoxiphus (4 including 2 new); Pulsellidae, Pulsellum (2 including 1 new), Compressidens (1); ...
2014 Melissa B. Martin; Niel L. Bruce; Barbara F. Nowak Melissa B. Martin; Niel L. Bruce; Barbara F. Nowak. Smenispa irregularis (Bleeker, 1857) (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), a buccal-attaching fish parasite from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 66: 233-240.
The species is identified by the strongly vaulted body shape, pereonites 1 and 2 arching anteriorly, ... cephalon embedded in pereonite 1, lateral margins of pereonites subparallel, and the lateral margins ...
2001 Richard N. Holdaway; Atholl Anderson Richard N. Holdaway; Atholl Anderson. Avifauna from the Emily Bay settlement site, Norfolk Island: a preliminary account. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 27: 85-100.
, and were concentrated in areas where other evidence such as post holes and fires scoops indicated points ...
1944 H. Leighton Kesteven H. Leighton Kesteven. The evolution of the skull and the cephalic muscles: a comparative study of their development and adult morphology. Part II. The Amphibia. Australian Museum Memoir 8: 133-236.
Museum Memoir Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract The Cephalic Muscles of Branchiate Amphibians: 1. ... The Cephalic Muscles of the Abranchiate Amphibians: 1. The Adult Caducibranchiate Urodeles; 2. ... The Skulls of the Amphibians: 1. The skull of Neoceratodus; 2. The Skull in the Euamphibia; 3. ... The Origin of the Amphibia: 1. General considerations; 2. ...
2004 Tim Denham Tim Denham. Early agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea: an assessment of Phase 1 at Kuk Swamp. In A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 29: 47-57.
Early agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea: an assessment of Phase 1 at Kuk Swamp. ... , Supplement Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract The wetland archaeological evidence for Phase 1 ... multidisciplinary evidence suggest a revised interpretation of the wetland archaeological evidence for Phase 1 ...
2023 Hiroyuki Ariyama; Takeya Moritaki Hiroyuki Ariyama; Takeya Moritaki. Two new amphipods associated with a hermit crab from the Kumano-nada, central Japan (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Isaeidae, Stenothoidae). Records of the Australian Museum 75: 357-370.
Metopelloides lowryi sp. nov. is characterized by the short article 2 of antenna 1, the slender mandibular ...
2025 Barry J. Richardson Barry J. Richardson. A new genus of neonine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Neonini) from Australia.. Records of the Australian Museum 77: 285-314.
Records of the Australian Museum Publisher Australian Museum Abstract The Neonini is a tribe of small (1– ...
1972 C. N. Smithers C. N. Smithers. The classification and phylogeny of the Psocoptera. Australian Museum Memoir 14: 1-349.
Some of the problems involved, mainly arising from lack of adequate published data, are pointed out and ...
2006 Guillermo San Martín; Pat Hutchings Guillermo San Martín; Pat Hutchings. Eusyllinae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from Australia with the description of a new genus and fifteen new species. Records of the Australian Museum 58: 257-370.
belonging to 14 genera: Amblyosyllis Grube, 1857 (3 species); Anoplosyllis Claparède, 1868 (1 ... Dorsey, 1982 (2 species); Eusyllis Malmgren, 1867 (3 species); Nudisyllis Knox & Cameron, 1970 (1 ... öder, 1991 (4 species); Pionosyllis Malmgren, 1867 (15 species); Psammosyllis Westheide, 1990 (1 ... species); Streptodonta n.gen. (1 species); Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict, 1884 (3 species); and ...
1889 R. Etheridge R. Etheridge. The general zoology of Lord Howe Island; containing also an account of the collections made by the Australian Museum Collecting Party, Aug.–Sept., 1887. Australian Museum Memoir 2: 1-42.
" In the present Report I have endeavoured to point out what has been accomplished by observers ...
2020 Chris A. M. Reid; Ian Hutton; Saxxon Thompson Chris A. M. Reid; Ian Hutton; Saxxon Thompson. The citizen scientist survey of large Coleoptera on Lord Howe Island, August 2019. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online 31: 1-15.
the Australian Museum (online) Publisher The Australian Museum Abstract A survey of large beetles, 1 ...
2020 Julien Louys; Michael B. Herrera; Vicki A. Thomson; Andrew S. Wiewel; Stephen C. Donnellan; Sue O’Connor; Ken Aplin Julien Louys; Michael B. Herrera; Vicki A. Thomson; Andrew S. Wiewel; Stephen C. Donnellan; Sue O’Connor; Ken Aplin. Expanding population edge craniometrics and genetics provide insights into dispersal of commensal rats through Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Records of the Australian Museum 72: 287-302.
performing RrC craniometric model had a negative association between size and distance from the easternmost point ...
1955 Keith C. McKeown Keith C. McKeown. The food of trout in New South Wales 1938–1940. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 273-279.
 No. 1—sex unknown, Weight 1.75 lb.; Length, 16 in.; Date, 2/March, 1940; Time, 7 p.m.; Fly ... Contents: 1 large Anisopterid dragonfly (red), 2 stick Caddis cases, 1 winged Ant (Iridomyrmex). ... Contents: 1 large Anisopterid dragonfly (red). ...
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.
Sl1dsee Expedition visited the village of Soraga in 1909 and collected names which provide a useful fixed point ...
1921 W. W. Thorpe W. W. Thorpe. A Papuan sorcery tube. Records of the Australian Museum 13: 173-174.
Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, the Trustees have just received as a donation, a small bamboo box, or tube (Fig. 1) ... The tube is an ordinary section of bamboo, with a length of 4 1/4 inches and a diameter of 1 1/2 inches ...
2020 William G. Breed; Chris M. Leigh; Eleanor J. Peirce William G. Breed; Chris M. Leigh; Eleanor J. Peirce. Reproductive biology of the mice and rats (family Muridae) in New Guinea—diversity and evolution. Records of the Australian Museum 72: 303-316.
observed in pregnant individuals in species of all of the hydromyine divisions was generally between 1 ... mass (RTM) of most species in the Hydromys, Uromys, Mallomys, and Rattus divisions was usually between 1 ...
2023 Sigit Wiantoro; Tim F. Flannery; Dan Brown; Kyle N. Armstrong; Kristofer M. Helgen Sigit Wiantoro; Tim F. Flannery; Dan Brown; Kyle N. Armstrong; Kristofer M. Helgen. The mammal fauna of Kofiau Island, off western New Guinea. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 653-662.
Island, undertaken in 2011 and 2019, increasing the number of species recorded from the island from 1 ...