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Łukowiak, Magdalena. "Fossil and modern sponge fauna of southern Australia and adjacent regions compared: interpretation, evolutionary and biogeographic significance of the late Eocene ‘soft’ sponges." Contributions to Zoology 85, no. 1 (January 12, 2016): 13–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08501002.
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The late Eocene ‘soft’ sponge fauna of southern Australia is reconstructed based on disassociated spicules and is used to interpret the paleoecology and environmental context of shallow marine communities in this region. The reconstructed sponge association was compared with coeval sponge assemblages from the Oamaru Diatomite, New Zealand, and with the modern ‘soft’ sponge fauna of southern coastal of Australia. Based on the predominance of shallow- and moderately shallow-water species, the late Eocene assemblage is interpreted to have inhabited waters depths of about 100 m. This contrast with the spicule assemblage from New Zealand, which characterized deeper waters based on the presence of numerous strictly deepwater sponge taxa, and the absence of spicules of shallow-water demosponges represented in the Australian material. The southern Australian Eocene sponge assemblages have clear Tethyan affinities evidenced by the occurrence of sponges known today from diverse regions. This distribution suggests much wider geographical ranges of some sponge taxa during the Eocene. Their present distributions may be relictual. The modern sponge fauna inhabiting southern Australian waters shows only moderate differences from these of the late Eocene. Differences are more pronounced at lower taxonomic levels (family and genus).
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Manasseh, Richard, Kathleen L. McInnes, and Mark A. Hemer. "Pioneering developments of marine renewable energy in Australia." International Journal of Ocean and Climate Systems 8, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): 50–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1759313116684525.
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The history of ocean renewable energy developments in Australia is reviewed. A layperson’s description of the physical operating principle is given for the main classes of technology that have been tested in Australian waters. The Australian marine domain possesses among the world’s most energetic wave-energy resources, driven by powerful mid-latitude westerly winds. The northern coast of Western Australia has tidal ranges significant on a global scale, and some geographical features around the continent have local tidal resonances. The East Australian Current, one of the world’s major western boundary currents, runs along the eastern Australian seaboard, offering potential for ocean-current energy. Sea-water temperatures in the tropical north-east of Australia may permit ocean thermal energy conversion. While this abundance of resources makes Australia an ideal location for technology development, the population is highly concentrated in a few large cities, and transmission infrastructure has developed over a century to supply cities from traditional power plants. Several wave-power developments have resulted in demonstration of deployments in Australian waters, three of which have been grid connected. Trials of tidal devices have also occurred, while other classes of ocean renewable energy have not yet been trialled. The prospects for marine renewable energy in Australia are discussed including non-traditional applications such as coastal protection and energy export.
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NIELSEN, JØRGEN G., JOHN J. POGONOSKI, and SHARON A. APPLEYARD. "Aphyonid-clade species of Australia (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with four species new to Australian waters and a new species of Barathronus." Zootaxa 4564, no. 2 (March 6, 2019): 554. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4564.2.12.
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During voyages in 2017 off southern and southeastern Australia, the Australian Research Vessel Investigator deployed a series of demersal beam trawls to depths of around 5000 metres. Nineteen specimens of the rarely caught aphyonid-clade of the ophidiiform family Bythitidae, representing five species, were caught. Four of these are new to Australian waters: Barathronus pacificus Nielsen and Eagle, 1974 known from the northeastern and southwestern Pacific Ocean, Paraphyonus bolini (Nielsen, 1974) known from the western Indian and western Pacific Oceans, Paraphyonus rassi (Nielsen, 1975) known from the Atlantic Ocean and Sciadonus pedicellaris Garman, 1899, known from the northeastern Atlantic and northeastern and southwestern Pacific Oceans. Also included are Aphyonus gelatinosus Günther, 1878 known from all oceans including ten specimens from Australian waters, Barathronus maculatus Shcherbachev, 1976 known from South Africa to the westernmost Pacific including 13 specimens from Australian waters, Sciadonus longiventralis Nielsen, 2018 known from the holotype collected off New South Wales and finally Barathronus algrahami n. sp. known from the holotype caught off South Australia and four paratypes from off Taiwan and northern Philippines. Close examination of specimens collected during recent voyages combined with recent and ongoing studies by the first author and DNA COI barcoding analysis enabled an assessment of the aphyonid-clade species hitherto recorded from Australian waters. An identification key to the eight aphyonid clade species known from Australian waters is provided.
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Botha, Elizabeth J., Janet M. Anstee, Stephen Sagar, Eric Lehmann, and Thais A. G. Medeiros. "Classification of Australian Waterbodies across a Wide Range of Optical Water Types." Remote Sensing 12, no. 18 (September 16, 2020): 3018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12183018.
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Baseline determination and operational continental scale monitoring of water quality are required for reporting on marine and inland water progress to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This study aims to improve our knowledge of the optical complexity of Australian waters. A workflow was developed to cluster the modelled spectral response of a range of in situ bio-optical observations collected in Australian coastal and continental waters into distinct optical water types (OWTs). Following clustering and merging, most of the modelled spectra and modelled specific inherent optical properties (SIOP) sets were clustered in 11 OWTs, ranging from clear blue coastal waters to very turbid inland lakes. The resulting OWTs were used to classify Sentinel-2 MSI surface reflectance observations extracted over relatively permanent water bodies in three drainage regions in Eastern Australia. The satellite data classification demonstrated clear limnological and seasonal differences in water types within and between the drainage divisions congruent with general limnological, topographical, and climatological factors. Locations of unclassified observations can be used to inform where in situ bio-optical data acquisition may be targeted to capture a more comprehensive characterization of all Australian waters. This can contribute to global initiatives like the SDGs and increases the diversity of natural water in global databases.
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McLean, Jessica, Aleshia Lonsdale, Laura Hammersley, Emily O'Gorman, and Fiona Miller. "Shadow waters: Making Australian water cultures visible." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 43, no. 4 (May 30, 2018): 615–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12248.
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Stanhope, Jessica, Philip Weinstein, and Angus Cook. "Do natural spring waters in Australia and New Zealand affect health? A systematic review." Journal of Water and Health 16, no. 1 (December 14, 2017): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wh.2017.209.
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Abstract Therapeutic use of spring waters has a recorded history dating back to at least 1550 BC and includes both bathing in and drinking such waters for their healing properties. In Australia and New Zealand the use of therapeutic spring waters is a much more recent phenomenon, becoming a source of health tourism from the late 1800s. We conducted a systematic review aimed at determining the potential health outcomes relating to exposure to Australian or New Zealand natural spring water. We found only low-level evidence of adverse health outcomes relating to this spring water exposure, including fatalities from hydrogen sulphide poisoning, drowning and primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. We found no studies that investigated the therapeutic use of these waters, compared with similar treatment with other types of water. From the broader literature, recommendations have been made, including fencing potentially harmful spring water, and having signage and media messages to highlight the potential harms from spring water exposure and how to mitigate the risks (e.g. not putting your head under water from geothermal springs). Sound research into the potential health benefits of Australian and New Zealand spring waters could provide an evidence base for the growing wellness tourism industry.
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West, John G. "Changing patterns of shark attacks in Australian waters." Marine and Freshwater Research 62, no. 6 (2011): 744. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf10181.
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Although infrequent, shark attacks attract a high level of public and media interest, and often have serious consequences for those attacked. Data from the Australian Shark Attack File were examined to determine trends in unprovoked shark attacks since 1900, particularly over the past two decades. The way people use the ocean has changed over time. The rise in Australian shark attacks, from an average of 6.5 incidents per year in 1990–2000, to 15 incidents per year over the past decade, coincides with an increasing human population, more people visiting beaches, a rise in the popularity of water-based fitness and recreational activities and people accessing previously isolated coastal areas. There is no evidence of increasing shark numbers that would influence the rise of attacks in Australian waters. The risk of a fatality from shark attack in Australia remains low, with an average of 1.1 fatalities year–1 over the past 20 years. The increase in shark attacks over the past two decades is consistent with international statistics of shark attacks increasing annually because of the greater numbers of people in the water.
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TAYLOR, JOANNE. "The sand shrimp genus Philocheras (Caridea: Crangonidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia including the description of a new species and a key to Australian species." Zootaxa 2372, no. 1 (February 26, 2010): 157–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.16.
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Eight species of Philocheras (Crustacea: Caridea: Crangonidae) are reported from the Northwest Shelf of Western Australia. One species is new to science Philocheras anthonyi sp. nov. Five species are reported for the first time from Australian waters, P. angustirostris (De Man, 1918), P. incisus (Kemp, 1916), P. japonicus (Doflein, 1902), P. modestus (De Man, 1918) and P. plebs (Kemp, 1916). A range extension within Australia is reported for Philocheras lowisi (Kemp, 1916) and P. planoculminus Bruce, 1994. These records expand the number of Philocheras species previously recorded from Australian waters from ten to 16. A revised key and illustrated guide to the species from Australia is provided.
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Lehnert, K., R. Poulin, and B. Presswell. "Checklist of marine mammal parasites in New Zealand and Australian waters." Journal of Helminthology 93, no. 6 (June 24, 2019): 649–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x19000361.
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AbstractMarine mammals are long-lived top predators with vagile lifestyles, which often inhabit remote environments. This is especially relevant in the oceanic waters around New Zealand and Australia where cetaceans and pinnipeds are considered as vulnerable and often endangered due to anthropogenic impacts on their habitat. Parasitism is ubiquitous in wildlife, and prevalence of parasitic infections as well as emerging diseases can be valuable bioindicators of the ecology and health of marine mammals. Collecting information about parasite diversity in marine mammals will provide a crucial baseline for assessing their impact on host and ecosystem ecology. New studies on marine mammals in New Zealand and Australian waters have recently added to our knowledge of parasite prevalence, life cycles and taxonomic relationships in the Australasian region, and justify a first host–parasite checklist encompassing all available data. The present checklist comprises 36 species of marine mammals, and 114 species of parasites (helminths, arthropods and protozoans). Mammal species occurring in New Zealand and Australian waters but not included in the checklist represent gaps in our knowledge. The checklist thus serves both as a guide for what information is lacking, as well as a practical resource for scientists working on the ecology and conservation of marine mammals.
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GERSHWIN, LISA-ANN, and WOLFGANG ZEIDLER. "Two new jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from tropical Australian waters." Zootaxa 1764, no. 1 (May 7, 2008): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1764.1.4.
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Two new species of scyphozoan jellyfishes from tropical Australian waters are described. The first, Sanderia pampinosus, n. sp., from waters off northern Western Australia, represents the first record of the genus from Australia. It differs from its only other congener, S. malayensis Goette, 1886, in having: (1) almost double the number of gonadal papillae at about half the body size; (2) horseshoe-shaped gonadal rings; and (3) eradial tentacles that are flattened in the oral-aboral direction and have nematocyst clusters on all sides. The second species, Netrostoma nuda, n. sp., from the Great Barrier Reef region, has been erroneously identified in the past as N. coerulescens. Species distinctions in the genus rely on the number and relative position of warts or papillae on the central dome; in contrast, N. nuda lacks warts and papillae, and instead has a large gelatinous knob at the apex of the bell. A key to the species of Netrostoma is provided, along with a synoptic list of previous reports of scyphozoans in tropical Australian waters.
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AHYONG, SHANE T., and GARY C. B. POORE. "The Chirostylidae of southern Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)." Zootaxa 436, no. 1 (February 18, 2004): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.436.1.1.
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The deep-water squat lobsters, Chirostylidae, of southern Australia are reported, comprising 31 species in three genera, increasing the known Australian fauna from 8 to 34. Two species of Eumunida Smith are reported, one of which, E. capillata de Saint Laurent & Macpherson, is a new record for Australia. Four species of Gastroptychus Caullery are reported, of which G. spinirostris is described as new, and G. hendersoni Alcock and G. sternoornatus Van Dam are new Australian records. A key to the Indo-West Pacific species of Gastroptychus is given. The known Australian fauna of Uroptychus Henderson is markedly increased from 4 to 26. Twenty-five species of Uroptychus are reported from the southern Australia. Twenty species of Uroptychus are described as new and two are reported for the first time from Australian waters. A key to the 26 known Australian species of Uroptychus is given. Uroptychus latirostris Yokoya from Japan, is removed from synonymy of U. cavirostris Alcock, from the Andaman Sea. The results of the present study indicate that the southern Australian chirostylid fauna is considerably more diverse than indicated by previous studies.
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Hoggett, AK. "The genus Macrophiothrix (Ophiuroidea : Ophiotrichidae) in Australian waters." Invertebrate Systematics 4, no. 5 (1990): 1077. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/it9901077.
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The genus Macrophiothrix H. L. Clark, 1938, includes some of the largest and most common ophiuroids occupying cryptic habitats in tropical Australia. Taxonomy of the Ophiotrichidae is confused and the species of Macrophiothrix, in particular, have been difficult to identify. Range of variation of certain characters within species has been determined by examination of a large number of specimens. Shape of the dorsal arm plates and form of the disc stumps are reasonably reliable diagnostic characters within adults of most species. Many taxonomic characters were found to vary in a consistent manner between small and large individuals of a species. A group of character states common to small specimens of most species is identified. In Australian waters, 17 species of Macrophiothrix (including two new species and four species newly recorded from Australia) are now recognised.
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Boon, PI, SE Bunn, JD Green, and RJ Shiel. "Consumption of cyanobacteria by freshwater zooplankton: Implications for the success of 'top-down' control of cyanobacterial blooms in Australia." Marine and Freshwater Research 45, no. 5 (1994): 875. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf9940875.
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Two main approaches have been mooted for the management of fresh waters to prevent or control cyanobacterial blooms: a 'bottom-up' approach in which the supply of essential nutrients is restricted, and a 'top-down' or 'biomanipulation' approach in which attempts are made to restructure the food web to maximize consumption of noxious cyanobacteria by herbivorous zooplankton. In this review, the published literature is examined to gauge whether the common zooplankton of Australian fresh waters have the capacity to control cyanobacterial blooms, especially of toxic forms, and thus whether the biomanipulation approach might be applied successfully in Australia. As zooplankton assemblages in Australian inland waters are quite different in composition from those of the Northern Hemisphere, they are unlikely to respond to manipulations of trophic structure in a similar way. The most common zooplankters in Australian inland waters, calanoid copepods and rotifers, have less potential for controlling cyanobacterial blooms than do large cladocerans. The latter are common in the Northern Hemisphere and are considered requisite for the control of cyanobacterial blooms. Toxic cyanobacteria, which cause the most severe environmental problems, have well documented detrimental effects on zooplankton. The few reports of zooplankton grazing on cyanobacteria in Australian fresh waters do not indicate that native zooplankton can consume noxious cyanobacteria at the rates required for control of algal blooms. There may, therefore, be grounds for strong reservations about the likely success of programmes proposed to control cyanobacterial blooms by the manipulation of trophic structure in Australian fresh waters.
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Cope, Robert C., Thomas A. A. Prowse, Joshua V. Ross, Talia A. Wittmann, and Phillip Cassey. "Temporal modelling of ballast water discharge and ship-mediated invasion risk to Australia." Royal Society Open Science 2, no. 4 (April 2015): 150039. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150039.
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Biological invasions have the potential to cause extensive ecological and economic damage. Maritime trade facilitates biological invasions by transferring species in ballast water, and on ships' hulls. With volumes of maritime trade increasing globally, efforts to prevent these biological invasions are of significant importance. Both the International Maritime Organization and the Australian government have developed policy seeking to reduce the risk of these invasions. In this study, we constructed models for the transfer of ballast water into Australian waters, based on historic ballast survey data. We used these models to hindcast ballast water discharge over all vessels that arrived in Australian waters between 1999 and 2012. We used models for propagule survival to compare the risk of ballast-mediated propagule transport between ecoregions. We found that total annual ballast discharge volume into Australia more than doubled over the study period, with the vast majority of ballast water discharge and propagule pressure associated with bulk carrier traffic. As such, the ecoregions suffering the greatest risk are those associated with the export of mining commodities. As global marine trade continues to increase, effective monitoring and biosecurity policy will remain necessary to combat the risk of future marine invasion events.
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Sala, Samuele, Scott K. Micke, and Gavin R. Flematti. "Marine Natural Products from Flora and Fauna of the Western Australian Coast: Taxonomy, Isolation and Biological Activity." Molecules 28, no. 3 (February 2, 2023): 1452. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28031452.
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Marine natural products occurring along the Western Australian coastline are the focus of this review. Western Australia covers one-third of the Australian coast, from tropical waters in the far north of the state to cooler temperate and Antarctic waters in the south. Over 40 years of research has resulted in the identification of a number of different types of secondary metabolites including terpenoids, alkaloids, polyketides, fatty acid derivatives, peptides and arsenic-containing natural products. Many of these compounds have been reported to display a variety of bioactivities. A description of the compound classes and their associated bioactivities from marine organisms found along the Western Australian coastline is presented.
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Cresswell, George R., Lars C. Lund-Hansen, and Morten Holtegaard Nielsen. "Dipole vortices in the Great Australian Bight." Marine and Freshwater Research 66, no. 2 (2015): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf13305.
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Shipboard measurements from late 2006 made by the Danish Galathea 3 Expedition and satellite sea surface temperature images revealed a chain of cool and warm ‘mushroom’ dipole vortices that mixed warm, salty, oxygen-poor waters on and near the continental shelf of the Great Australian Bight (GAB) with cooler, fresher, oxygen-rich waters offshore. The alternating ‘jets’ flowing into the mushrooms were directed mainly northwards and southwards and differed in temperature by only 1.5°C; however, the salinity difference was as much as 0.5, and therefore quite large. The GAB waters were slightly denser than the cooler offshore waters. The field of dipoles evolved and distorted, but appeared to drift westwards at 5km day–1 over two weeks, and one new mushroom carried GAB water southwards at 7km day–1. Other features encountered between Cape Leeuwin and Tasmania included the Leeuwin Current, the South Australian Current, the Flinders Current and the waters of Bass Strait.
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Sommer, Bea. "Australian Saltmarsh Ecology." Pacific Conservation Biology 16, no. 1 (2010): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc100071.
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Australia, including its territorial islands, is surrounded by almost 60 000 km of coastline (Geoscience Australia, http://www.ga.gov.au/education/) and, according to Saintilan, coastal saltmarshes occupy some 16 000 km2. Saltmarshes provide valuable ecosystem services and are generally recognized as among the most productive ecosystems on Earth. This is considered to be ecologically important because excess detrital matter exported to marine waters sustains food webs, including important fisheries (i.e., Odum?s [1980] ?outwelling hypothesis?). Although physically and biologically similar to saltmarshes elsewhere, Australian coastal saltmarshes have certain unique characteristics (e.g., the tidal zonation of marsh and mangroves and levels of productivity) that natural resource managers need to be aware of. Perhaps more so than elsewhere, the great majority of the Australian population lives along or near the coast. Consequently, Australian saltmarsh environments have been subject to significant human-driven change since European settlement. In spite of these compelling facts, Australian publications remain under-represented relative to the extent of saltmarsh on the continent. Australian Saltmarsh Ecology does much to correct this situation.
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Nimbs, Matt J. "A Victorian emigrant: first observation and range extension of the nudibranch Tenellia catachroma (Burn, 1963) in Western Australia (Mollusca: Gastropoda)." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 129, no. 1 (2017): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rs17003.
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The southwest coast of Western Australia is heavily influenced by the south-flowing Leeuwin Current. In summer, the current shifts and the north-flowing Capes Current delivers water from the south to nearshore environments and with it a supply of larvae from cooler waters. The nudibranch Tenellia catachroma (Burn, 1963) was considered restricted to Victorian waters; however, its discovery in eastern South Australia in 2013 revealed its capacity to expand its range west. In March 2017 a single individual was observed in shallow subtidal waters at Cape Peron, Western Australia, some 2000 km to the west of its previous range limit. Moreover, its distribution has extended northwards, possibly aided by the Capes Current, into a location of warming. This observation significantly increases the range for this Victorian emigrant to encompass most of the southern Australian coast, and also represents an equatorward shift at a time when the reverse is expected.
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Brown, Alex, Lars Bejder, Daniele Cagnazzi, Guido J. Parra, and Simon J. Allen. "The North West Cape, Western Australia: A Potential Hotspot for Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins Sousa chinensis?" Pacific Conservation Biology 18, no. 4 (2012): 240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc120240.
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Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins Sousa chinensis (Humpback Dolphins hereafter) are listed as ‘near threatened’ on an international level and ‘migratory’ in Australian waters. There is limited information on Humpback Dolphins in Western Australian State waters, where the species remains unlisted. This lack of knowledge hinders the management and conservation of the species in a region of rapidly increasing coastal development. We conducted opportunistic boat-based surveys in April 2010 and present data on the location, size and composition of Humpback Dolphin groups encountered in the near-shore waters around the North West Cape, Western Australia. A total of 42 groups were encountered in a variety of habitats during 145 h on the water over ca. 80 km coastline. Group size ranged from 1 to 15, with a mean (± SE) of 5.3 (± 0.48) individuals. A total of 54 Humpback Dolphins were identified from photographs of the unique markings on their dorsal fins. The lack of a plateau in the cumulative discovery curve of identified individuals over the duration of the study suggests that only a subset of dolphins in the area was identified. This region is close to the south-western limit of the species’ Australian distribution and appears to represent an important location for Western Australian Humpback Dolphins. In light of increasing anthropogenic activity around the North West Cape and Exmouth Gulf, these preliminary findings from a limited survey effort indicate that further research into this population is required.
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Elliott, NG, and RD Ward. "Enzyme variation in jackass morwong, Nemadactylus macropterus (Schneider, 1801) (Teleostei: Cheilodactylidae), from Australian and New Zealand waters." Marine and Freshwater Research 45, no. 1 (1994): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf9940051.
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Nemadactylus macropterus was sampled from eight localities around southern Australia, ranging from Western Australia to New South Wales, and from one area off the western coast of New Zealand. Thirty-three enzyme loci were analysed by gel electrophoresis. Average heterozygosity per locus per sample was 10.1 %, ranging from 8.4% to 11.I% per sample. Although no significant differentiation was observed among the Australian samples, there was significant differentiation between the Australian and New Zealand samples. This was primarily attributable to variation at the sAAT-I * locus, where the common allele had a frequency of around 0.80 in Australian samples and around 0.94 in the New Zealand sample (P<0.001). Across all 33 loci, 0.47% of the total genetic variation in Australian and New Zealand samples was due to differentiation between these two areas. This is significantly greater (P=0.001) than the value of 0.17% that could be ascribed to sampling error alone. Two loci (ADH* and GPI-I *) that had previously been reported as monomorphic in New Zealand specimens were found to be polymorphic in the New Zealand samples analysed in this study, and allele frequencies at these loci were indistinguishable from Australian samples.
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TAYLOR, JOANNE, SHANE T. AHYONG, and NIKOS ANDREAKIS. "New records and new species of the munidopsine squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae: Munidopsinae) from Australia." Zootaxa 2642, no. 1 (October 12, 2010): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2642.1.1.
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Nine species of Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784, and one species of Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae) are reported from the continental shelf of Australia. Two species are new to science, M. comarge sp. nov. and M. vesper sp. nov. Munidopsis vesper is presently known only from Western Australia, but M. comarge ranges from Western Australia to New Zealand. Six species are reported for the first time from Australian waters, G. subspinosa Macpherson, 2007, M. andamanica MacGilchrist, 1905, M. crenatirostris Baba, 1988, M. hirsutissima Balss, 1913, M. levis (Alcock & Anderson, 1894) and M. nitida (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880). A range extension within Australia is reported for M. dasypus Alcock, 1894 and M. kensleyi Ahyong & Poore, 2004. These new records expand the number of Munidopsis species previously recorded from Australian waters from 15 to 22 and the number of Galacantha species from three to four. A key and illustrated guide to the species now known from Australia is provided.
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Ridgway, KR, and RG Loch. "Mean temperature-salinty relationships in Australian waters and their use in water mass analysis." Marine and Freshwater Research 38, no. 5 (1987): 553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf9870553.
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Within a network of 2.5� (latitude) × 5� (longitude) bins in Australian waters (5�-45�s.; 105�-160�E.), mean temperature-salinity (TS) relationships have been obtained. They consist of a series of mean salinities at 2.5-degree intervals between 5 and 27.5�C. From the TS curves, at temperatures between 10 and 25�C, a region of strong meridional TS gradients is identified, centred west of the Australian mainland at 15�s. This marks the northernmost penetration of South East Indian Central Water as specified by a salinity maximum in the TS curves. The waters to the east of Australia display a uniform pattern with an upper salinity maximum associated with Subtropical Lower Water. In the whole region of study the presence of Antarctic Intermediate Water is observed as a lower salinity minimum. The TS curves are shown to be tight enough throughout the regions for useful geopotential values to be computed from temperature profiles and a mean TS relationship. Errors introduced into the calculation by this technique are less than or equal to the error involved using actual temperature and salinity data.
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Cresswell, G. R., J. L. Peterson, and L. F. Pender. "The East Australian Current, upwellings and downwellings off eastern-most Australia in summer." Marine and Freshwater Research 68, no. 7 (2017): 1208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf16051.
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The complex influences of the East Australian Current (EAC) and winds on the waters of the continental shelf were addressed with a ship survey, moored and drifting instruments, satellite images and wind and sea level measurements. The study revealed intrusions of continental slope water reaching the inner continental shelf when the EAC was near the shelf edge and wind stress was near zero or upwelling favourable (northerly). The process was the onshore movement of a southward flowing stream of water originally from the continental slope. One event was captured near Cape Byron and Evans Head when these waters upwelled to the surface. When the wind stress turned northward, it reversed the inner shelf current and drove downwelling. Variations in the wind stress also modulated the strength of the EAC out across the shelf to the upper slope. The strength of the EAC per se varied with a time scale of 2–3 months; these variations decreased in amplitude westward until they were undetectable at the inner shelf. The EAC had a subsurface speed maximum of up to 1.6ms–1 at 100–150-m depth above the continental slope and was seen to accelerate with both time and distance southward along the 190-km length surveyed by the ship.
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Grewe, Peter M., Adam J. Smolenski, and Robert D. Ward. "Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in Jackass Morwong (Nemadactylus macropterus: Teleostei) from Australian and New Zealand Waters." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51, no. 5 (May 1, 1994): 1101–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f94-109.
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The jackass morwong (Nemadactylus macropterus), a commercially valuable marine fish in the Australian–New Zealand region, was surveyed for genetic variation as part of a larger project aimed at clarifying its stock structure. Mitochondrial DNA variation in 166 jackass morwong from seven southern Australian localities was examined using nine restriction enzymes. The 28 haplotypes identified gave an overall nucleon diversity of 0.671. Mean nucleotide diversity per sample was 0.458%, with a (corrected) nucleotide divergence among samples of 0.001%. There was no significant spatial patterning. Five hundred individuals from eight southern Australian localities and one New Zealand locality were examined using three restriction enzymes detecting polymorphic cut sites. The 33 haplotypes identified gave an overall nucleon diversity of 0.635. Mean nucleotide diversity per sample was 1.247%, with a (corrected) nucleotide divergence among samples of 0.002%. No differentiation was detected among the Australian localities. The New Zealand sample showed weak but significant divergence from the Australian samples. These results were similar to those from a concurrent allozyme analysis, and we conclude that there is appreciable nuclear and mitochondrial DNA gene flow among Australian localities, while the Tasman Sea separating Australia from New Zealand acts as a partial barrier.
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Lamprell, Kevin, and John Stanisic. "Myidae from Australian waters (Mollusca, Bivalvia)." Molluscan Research 19, no. 1 (January 1998): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13235818.1998.10673705.
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McCauley, Robert D., Chandra P. Salgado Kent, Christopher L. K. Burton, and Curt Jenner. "Blue whale calling in Australian waters." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120, no. 5 (November 2006): 3266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4776880.
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Walker, D. I., and A. J. McComb. "Seagrass degradation in Australian coastal waters." Marine Pollution Bulletin 25, no. 5-8 (January 1992): 191–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-326x(92)90224-t.
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Stevens, J. D., G. J. West, and K. J. McLoughlin. "Movements, recapture patterns, and factors affecting the return rate of carcharhinid and other sharks tagged off northern Australia." Marine and Freshwater Research 51, no. 2 (2000): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf98158.
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Between February 1983 and May 1985, ~10 500 sharks of 23 species were fin-tagged off northern Australia. Tagging concentrated on the commercially important Carcharhinus tilstoni and C. sorrah. Most recaptures were made in 1984 and 1985, but returns continued until May 1997. In all, 579 tags (5.5%) were recovered. Tag shedding was estimated to be low (0.025 year –1 for C. tilstoni) and tagging mortality was significantly lower for sharks caught by hand-line than by gill-net. Australian gill-netters, Taiwanese gill-netters (fishing in the Australian Fishing Zone) and Australian prawn trawlers accounted for most of the returns. The maximum distance between the release and recapture positions was >1100 km, but most returns were made within 50 km of the tagging site. Nearly all the releases were in inshore waters fished by Australian vessels. Although many recaptures were made by the offshore Taiwanese fishery, the Taiwanese fishing effort was much higher than for the inshore Australian fishery, so that relative to fishing effort, relatively few sharks moved from inshore to offshore waters.
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Franklin, Wally, Trish Franklin, Virginia Andrews-Goff, David Paton, and Michael Double. "Movement of two humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) satellite-radio tagged off Eden, NSW and matched by photo-identification with the Hervey Bay catalogue." J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 17, no. 1 (January 24, 2023): 29–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.47536/jcrm.v17i1.429.
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Photo-identification studies of humpback whales off eastern Australia show low levels of movement between eastern Australia and New Caledonia whales. Some eastern Australian humpback whales migrate through the southern waters of New Zealand on route to Antarctic feeding areas. Photoidentification studies have shown that the waters near the Balleny Islands, in Antarctic Area V, are a feeding area for some eastern Australian humpback whales. However, such studies provide no details of the routes taken between New Zealand and Australia and to and from Antarctic feeding areas. Sixteen humpback whales were satellite-linked radio tagged off Eden NSW in 2008. The number and duration of the tag positions reported revealed complete migratory transits from Eden to Antarctic Area V and IV feeding areas. Photographs of the Eden humpback whales were compared to the Hervey Bay photo-identification catalogue and yielded two matches, identified from lateral body marks and dorsal fins. This study provides the first evidence that during the southern migration some humpback whales stopover at Hervey Bay and also migrate past Eden on the NSW coast. The tracks of the two whales from Eden showed that a male sighted in Hervey Bay in the same season moved southeast from Eden towards southern New Zealand. A female with site-fidelity to Hervey Bay in previous seasons, accompanied by a calf when the tag was deployed, moved down and around the coast of Victoria, across Bass Strait and then southwest into the Antarctic Area IV feeding area. Eden may be a migratory hub for humpback whales departing from and approaching the east coast of Australia. This study suggests that eastern Australian humpback whales may exhibit a more diverse range of feeding destinations, after leaving Australian coastal waters, than previously reported.
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WOOLLEY, SKIPTON, and ROBIN S. WILSON. "Two new species of Eulepethidae (Polychaeta) from Australian seas." Zootaxa 2839, no. 1 (April 29, 2011): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2839.1.2.
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Exploration of poorly known regions of the Australian continental margin has resulted in the discovery of two new species in the scale worm family Eulepethidae. Grubeulepis kurnai sp. nov. occurs in southeastern Australia while Proeulepethus payungu sp. nov. was collected at one site in the Indian Ocean on the continental margin of Western Australia. Pareulepis malayana (Horst, 1913), also collected from the continental margin of Western Australia, is newly recorded from Australia, representing a range extension of that species previously known from Madagascar, Malaysia and the South China Sea. Four species, and four of the six known genera of Eulepethidae are now known from Australian waters. The family Eulepethidae remains species-poor compared with most polychaete families, and now comprises 21 species world wide.
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LAST, PETER R., and WILLIAM T. WHITE. "Three new angel sharks (Chondrichthyes: Squatinidae) from the Indo-Australian region." Zootaxa 1734, no. 1 (March 28, 2008): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1734.1.1.
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Four species of angel sharks (family Squatinidae) occur in temperate and subtropical Australian waters. Two of these, Squatina albipunctata sp. nov. and S. pseudocellata sp. nov., which occur mainly off subtropical eastern and western Australia respectively, are formally described and illustrated. The new species differ from temperate Australian species, S. australis and S. tergocellata, in morphometrics, meristics, squamation, and coloration. Another new angel shark, S. legnota sp. nov. from eastern Indonesia, is compared to these species. Unlike Australian Squatina, it has unfringed (rather than fringed) barbels on its nasal flap.
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Palmer, Carol, Stephen A. Murphy, Deborah Thiele, Guido J. Parra, Kelly M. Robertson, Isabel Beasley, and Chris M. Austin. "Analysis of mitochondrial DNA clarifies the taxonomy and distribution of the Australian snubfin dolphin (Orcaella heinsohni) in northern Australian waters." Marine and Freshwater Research 62, no. 11 (2011): 1303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf11063.
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Conservation management relies on being able to identify and describe species. Recent morphological and molecular analyses of the dolphin genus Orcaella show a species-level disjunction between eastern Australia and South-east Asia. However, because of restricted sampling, the taxonomic affinities of the geographically intermediate populations in the Northern Territory and Western Australia remained uncertain. We sequenced 403 base pairs of the mitochondrial control region from five free-ranging Orcaella individuals sampled from north-western Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Low net nucleotide divergence (0.11–0.67%) among the Australian Orcaella populations show that populations occurring in the Northern Territory and Western Australia belong to the Australian snubfin (O. heinsohni) rather than the Asian Irrawaddy dolphin (O. brevirostris). Clarifying the distribution of Orcaella is an important first step in the conservation and management for both species; however, an understanding of the metapopulation structure and patterns of dispersal among populations is now needed.
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Casiño, Tereso Catiil. "Winds of change in the church in Australia." Review & Expositor 115, no. 2 (May 2018): 214–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034637318761358.
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The history of Christianity in Australia had a humble but rich beginning. Its early foundations were built on the sacrifices and hard work of individuals and groups who, although bound by their oath to expand and promote the Crown, showed concern for people who did not share their religious beliefs and norms. Australia provided the Church with an almost unparalleled opportunity to advance the gospel. By 1901, Christianity emerged as the religion of over 90% of the population. Church growth was sustained by a series of revival occurrences, which coincided with momentous social and political events. Missionary work among the aboriginal Australians accelerated. As the nation became wealthier, however, Christian values began to erode. In the aftermath of World War II, new waves of immigrants arrived. When Australia embraced multiculturalism, society slid into pluralism. New players emerged within Christianity, e.g., the Pentecostals and Charismatics. Technological advancement and consumerism impacted Australian society and the Church. By 2016, 30% of the national population claimed to have “no religion.” The Australian Church today navigates uncharted waters wisely and decisively as the winds of change continue to blow across the dry, barren spiritual regions of the nation.
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Hutchings, Pat, and Rachael Peart. "A revision of the Australian Trichobranchidae (Polychaeta)." Invertebrate Systematics 14, no. 2 (2000): 225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/it98005.
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The family Trichobranchidae is represented inAustralian waters by ten species(Artacamella dibranchiata Knox & Cameron, 1971,A. torulosa, sp. nov.,A. tribranchiata, sp. nov.,Terebellides kowinka, sp. nov.,T. mundora, sp. nov., T. narribri,sp. nov., T. woolawa, sp.nov.,Octobranchus myunus, sp.nov.,Trichobranchus bunnabus, sp. nov.andT. gorreekis, sp. nov.) in four genera, of which ninespecies are new. Previously the ‘cosmopolitan species’Terebellides stroemii Sars, 1835 had been widelyreported from Australia; examination of material from near the type locality,Norway, revealed that the Australian material differed and represented fournew species. Terebellides stroemii does not occur inAustralian waters. Terebellides stroemii is redescribed. Additional charactersare described for the genus which may also facilitate the separation of thesespecies. A key to the genera and species present in Australia is given, aswell as tables summarising the characters of all described species in thesegenera.
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Gibbings, Beth. "Remembering the SIEV X: Who Cares for the Bodies of the Stateless, Lost at Sea?" Public Historian 32, no. 1 (2010): 13–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2010.32.1.13.
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Abstract The SIEV X was a tiny fishing vessel traveling from Indonesia to Australia in 2001, carrying around four hundred people seeking asylum after fleeing from the warfare and persecution predominantly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many were women and children trying to enter Australia to join fathers and husbands already granted refugee status but not allowed to bring in family members because of new Australian laws on “Temporary Protection Visas.” Of these, 353 drowned when the boat sank in international waters. The conservative Australian government denied responsibility, using the event in an election campaign to play on fears about illegal entry and border defense in the Islamophobic climate in the aftermath of 9/11. Yet many everyday Australians eventually became involved in a collaborative design process to create a memorial to those asylum seekers. This article discusses the debates around memorials for those lost at sea, and particularly for those who might be portrayed as enemies or “illegal immigrants” whose coming threatens national borders. It identifies the conditions under which the campaign to commemorate those who died on the SIEV X moved from being a minority interest to become a cause so widely supported by Australians across the country that the memorial was eventually erected in the heart of the national capital.
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O'Toole, J., M. Sinclair, T. Jeavons, and K. Leder. "Alternative water sources and endotoxin." Water Science and Technology 58, no. 3 (August 1, 2008): 603–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2008.428.
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The primary objective of this preliminary study was to ascertain the concentration of endotoxin in a variety of Australian water types, including recycled water. A total of 42 sampling sites were surveyed, the majority on at least 2 separate occasions (total number of samples analysed was 76). Samples were collected from a variety of locations throughout Australia including: drinking water distribution (12), drinking water reservoir (4), wastewater treatment train (11) and finished recycled water (15). Class A recycled waters, defined microbiologically in Australian regulations as having <10 E. coli per 100 mL, where the treatment train did not include membrane filtration, gave rise to an average measured endotoxin concentration of 2.030 Endotoxin Units (EU) per mL (N=7). For recycled Class A water samples, where membrane filtration was part of the treatment train (N=3) the average endotoxin concentration was 41 EU/mL. Measured endotoxin concentrations in drinking water varied from <4 to 119 EU/mL. Results of this preliminary study indicate that endotoxin concentrations in recycled water may be reduced to levels at least as low as those found in drinking water but for some recycled waters, where membrane filtration is not practiced, higher endotoxin concentrations may persist.
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Hartwell, John. "2010 Offshore petroleum exploration release." APPEA Journal 50, no. 1 (2010): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj09001.
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The sustainable annual release of quality petroleum exploration acreage, to provide the global petroleum exploration industry with a variety of investment opportunities in Australian waters, is a key objective of the Australian Government. The annual Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release (Acreage Release) is underpinned by Australia’s stable economic environment and well-established regulatory framework for offshore petroleum activities. The 2010 Acreage Release areas are located across five basins. Release areas have been carefully selected to offer a range of investment opportunities; areas vary in size, known prospectivity, water depth and level of existing geological data and knowledge. Areas are supported by pre-competitive geological and geophysical data and analysis undertaken by Geoscience Australia.
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Tsamenyi, Martin. "Managing Indonesian Traditional Fishing Activities in Australian Waters: an Australian Perspective." Maritime Studies 1996, no. 86 (January 1996): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07266472.1996.10878444.
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KARANOVIC, IVANA. "A new Candonopsini (Ostracoda) genus from subterranean waters of New South Wales (Australia)." Zootaxa 4379, no. 2 (February 13, 2018): 247. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4379.2.6.
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The Australian Candonidae ostracod fauna has few surface water representatives, despite Australia being one of the principal centers of Candonidae biodiversity. The majority of Australian species live in subterranean waters, with most genera and one tribe being endemic to the continent. Species in Australia show Tethyan and Gondwana connections, with relatives living in European and Central/South American subterranean waters. I describe Hancockcandonopsis gen. nov. from boreholes in the alluvial aquifers of the Peel River and Hunter Valley, which at present contains five species, of which three are named, H. inachos sp. nov., H. io sp. nov., and H. tamworthi sp. nov., and two are left on the open nomenclature. All species are allopatric and short range endemics. The genus belongs to the almost cosmopolitan Candonopsini tribe, and the major generic autapomorphy is a hook-shaped h3-seta on the cleaning leg. Characters on the prehensile palps and hemipenis of Hancockcandonopsis indicate a close relationship with the Queensland genus Pioneercandonopsis Karanovic, 2005 and two West Indies genera, Cubacandona Danielopol, 1978 and Caribecandona Broodbaker, 1983. A cladistic analysis, based on 32 Candonopsini species and 24 morphological characters, is used to test phylogenetic relationships among Candonopsini genera globally. Several hypotheses about the historical biogeography of this tribe are discussed.
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Rosemond, Katie, and Skie Tobin. "Seasonal climate summary for the southern hemisphere (autumn 2016): El Niño slips into neutral and a negative Indian Ocean Dipole develops." Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science 68, no. 1 (2018): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/es18007.
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This is a summary of the southern hemisphere atmospheric circulation patterns and meteorological indices for autumn 2016; an account of seasonal rainfall and temperature for the Australian region is also provided. While autumn began with a weak El Niño signal in the Pacific, the decay of the El Niño was evident with subsurface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific continuing to cool. Later in the season, the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) transitioned to a negative phase. The negative IOD combined with warm water to Australia’s north channeled warm, moisture-laden air over the continent; unseasonable rainfall ensued, over eastern and northern Australia and New Zealand’s western coastal areas during May.Temperatures averaged over the southern hemisphere were record warm for autumn, both for land and ocean areas; separately or combined. For Australia, autumn arrived during a significant and prolonged heatwave that contributed to the warmest autumn on record for Australia.The elevated sea surface temperatures (SSTs) recorded in the Australian region earlier in the year persisted, and were warmest on record for autumn. Warm SSTs led to a global coral bleaching event affecting reefs in tropical waters; while, in extra-tropical waters, diminished kelp forests were observed. In the Australian region, reefs off the northwestern coast and, in northern areas of the Great Barrier Reef, were bleached. The most severe marine heatwave since records began was recorded in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
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Williams, A. "Taxonomy of 2 New Species of Heterobothrium (Monogenea, Diclidophoridae) From Torquigener-Pleurogramma (Pisces, Tetraodontidae) From Western-Australia." Australian Journal of Zoology 34, no. 5 (1986): 707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo9860707.
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Two new species of Monogenea of the genus Heterobothrium Cerfontaine, 1895 are described from Torquigener pleurogramma Regan, 1903 in Western Australia. These new species, H. elongatum and H. torquigeneri, are the first representatives of the genus recorded in Australian waters.
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SCHNABEL, KAREEN E., and SHANE T. AHYONG. "The squat lobster genus Phylladiorhynchus Baba, 1969 in New Zealand and eastern Australia, with description of six new species." Zootaxa 4688, no. 3 (October 23, 2019): 301–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4688.3.1.
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The small galatheid squat lobster genus Phylladiorhynchus currently contains five species, three of which supposedly have wide Indo-Pacific distributions. To date, two putatively widespread species, P. pusillus and P. integrirostris have been recorded from New Zealand and Australian waters. Here, we review the New Zealand and eastern Australian species of Phylladiorhynchus based on extensive collections from the region using morphological and molecular data. The type species, P. pusillus (Henderson, 1885) (type locality: Twofold Bay, Australia) is redescribed and shown to occur on both sides of the Tasman Sea. Phylladiorhynchus integrirostris, for which the original Hawaiian type material has been lost, is redescribed based on a neotype and shown not to occur in New Zealand or Australian waters, previous records being referable to other species. Six new species of Phylladiorhynchus are described. Seven species of Phylladiorhynchus are now known from New Zealand and eastern Australia. A key to all species of the genus is provided. Results of the present study show that the regional diversity of Phylladiorhynchus is significantly higher than previously reported and demonstrates the utility of a number of subtle morphological characters as diagnostic of species.
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Croome, RL, and PA Tyler. "Distribution of silica-scaled Chrysophyceae (Paraphysomonadaceae and Mallomonadaceae) in Australian inland waters." Marine and Freshwater Research 36, no. 6 (1985): 839. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf9850839.
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Thirty-two species of silica-scaled Chrysophyceae of the genera Spiniferomonas, Chrysosphaerella and Paraphysomonas, belonging to the Paraphysomonadaceae Preisig & Hibberd, 1983, and Mallomonas, Mallomonopsis and Synura, belonging to the Mallomonadaceae (Diesing, 1866) Preisig & Hibberd, 1983, are recognized by electron microscopy from a wide range of Australian freshwater habitats, from tropical to temperate regions, and from a range of trophic types of lake. Eleven species are reported from Australia for the first time, and three from the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. Although most of the species are of worldwide occurrence, several are as yet known only from Australia. Several highly dystrophic lakes in Tasmania are particularly rich in species numbers and in population densities.
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Fyler, C. A., and J. N. Caira. "Phylogenetic status of four new species of Acanthobothrium (Cestoda:Tetraphyllidea) parasitic on the wedgefish Rhynchobatus laevis (Elasmobranchii:Rhynchobatidae): implications for interpreting host associations." Invertebrate Systematics 24, no. 5 (2010): 419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/is10034.
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A recent major revision of the elasmobranchs of Australia, which expanded the described fauna from 190 to 307 species, has serious implications for our understanding of the host associations of parasites of Australian elasmobranchs. Most importantly, it questions the identities of the host records for many parasite species. This study focuses on cestodes of the tetraphyllidean genus Acanthobothrium parasitising Rhynchobatus, a batoid genus, the Australian elements of which have recently been revised. Four new cestode species are described from Rhynchobatus laevis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) from the Northern Territory, Australia. These species differ from their ~160 congeners in several morphological respects. They differ conspicuously from their four Australian congeners also hosted by a Rhynchobatus species, all four of which (i.e. Acanthobothrium bartonae Campbell & Beveridge, 2002, Acanthobothrium gibsoni Campbell & Beveridge, 2002, Acanthobothrium lasti Campbell & Beveridge, 2002 and Acanthobothrium rhynchobatidis Subhapradha, 1955) were reported from Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775), a batoid species no longer considered to occur in Australian waters. This suggests that one or both of the other Australian members of Rhynchobatus (i.e. R. australiae Whitley, 1939 and R. palpebratus Compagno & Last, 2008) are likely candidates as hosts for one or more of the latter four species. With respect to the relationships among congeners parasitising the same host species, phylogenetic analyses of sequence data of the D1–D3 region of 28S rDNA for three of the four new cestode species support previous work suggesting that congeners parasitising the same host species are not each other’s closest relatives. This study also serves to emphasise the importance of careful scrutiny of host identities, particularly in systems such as this, in which host taxonomy is under active revision.
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Norman, MD. "Ameloctopus litoralis, gen. et sp. nov. (Cephalopoda : Octopodidae), a new shallow-water octopus from tropical Australian waters." Invertebrate Systematics 6, no. 3 (1992): 567. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/it9920567.
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A new genus of octopus is described from northern Australian waters. Ameloctopus litoralis, gen. et sp. nov., is a shallow-water octopus characterised by the absence of an ink sac, vestigial funnel organ, terminal organ without a diverticulum, marked elongation of the arms and arm autotomy. It is found across northern Australia from southern Queensland to north-west Western Australia, primarily on coastal mudflats and intertidal reefs. This species occupies lairs in shallow and intertidal coastal habitats, feeding by extending arms from the safety of the lair or by foraging at night during low tides, over open sand, mud and rubble. A. litoralis lays large eggs, indicating that hatchlings are benthic and dispersal limited. Loss of the ink sac in a shallow-water octopod and the development of arm autotomy are discussed. Relationships with other octopod taxa exhibiting similar traits are examined.
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BRUCE, A. J. "Onycocaris longirostris Bruce, 1980 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), new to the Australian fauna." Zootaxa 3299, no. 1 (May 3, 2012): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3299.1.3.
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A heterosexual pair of specimens of Onycocaris longirostris Bruce, 1980, previously known only from the single incompletemale holotype from New Caledonia, are reported from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. With the male major secondpereiopod and both female second pereiopods, these intact specimens enable the description of the species to be completed. A new record for Australian waters, it increases to 8 the number of Onycocaris species known from Australia.
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Batley, Graeme E. "Regulation of Toxicants in the Australian Environment." Australian Journal of Chemistry 56, no. 3 (2003): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ch02248.
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The chemical behaviour of toxicants in the environment is a critical control on their impacts on human and ecological health. The current status of regulations for air, soils, groundwater, surface waters, and sediments in Australia are discussed, with particular focus on metals. It is now recognized that speciation and bioavailability are important in assessing potential effects, yet only now are environmental guidelines addressing these. Recent chemical and ecotoxicological studies of metal bioavailability in waters and sediments investigate robust methods for speciation measurement and report improved models to describe metal uptake and predict toxicity. The way forward with respect to toxicant regulation is a departure from single-number guidelines, to site-specific risk-based assessments, such as those adopted in the new ANZECC/ARMCANZ water quality guidelines.
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Barton, I. J., A. J. Prata, and R. P. Cechet. "Validation of the ATSR in Australian Waters." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 12, no. 2 (April 1995): 290–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(1995)012<0290:votaia>2.0.co;2.
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Moors, Philip. "Seabird Atlas Of South-Eastern Australian Waters." Emu - Austral Ornithology 104, no. 3 (September 2004): 299–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/muv104n3_br2.
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Flood, P. G. "Management of oil drilling in Australian waters." Marine Pollution Bulletin 25, no. 5-8 (January 1992): 143–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-326x(92)90217-t.
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