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{"title":"A critical re-evaluation of the hindlimb myology of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)","authors":"P. Bishop","doi":"10.17082/j.2204-1478.59.2015.2015-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.59.2015.2015-02","url":null,"abstract":"The extinct moa of New Zealand were an enigmatic group of flightless birds, some attaining gigantic size. To better understand the biomechanical consequences of their large size and unique anatomy on stance and locomotion, a critical re-evaluation of the evidence for muscular attachment in the hindlimb of moa was undertaken. Three focal taxa, Dinornis robustus, Emeus crassus and Pachyornis elephantopus, were studied in detail, although other moa species were also addressed. More than one thousand individual bones from a diverse array of localities across the South Island of New Zealand were examined, and interpretations were made within the context of extant palaeognath birds. The interpretations and reconstructions produced largely concur with those of previous workers in many respects. The reconstructed myology of these moa species is also quite comparable to that in extant palaeognaths, although some important differences are hypothesised to exist. The most significant of these is that it moa are posited to have had a very well-developed iliotrochantericus caudalis in comparison to extant palaeognaths. Digital computer reconstruction of this muscle in an adult female D. robustus supports this hypothesis. The great development of the iliotrochantericus caudalis in moa may be related to their large size, or reflect a different locomotor behaviour compared to extant palaeognath species. Finally, a number of myology-related features have been identified that may prove useful in the taxonomic identification of isolated or poorly preserved bones.","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74435706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New species of the genera Amblytelus Erichson, 1842 and Dystrichothorax","authors":"M. Baehr","doi":"10.17082/J.2204-1478.60.2016.2016-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/J.2204-1478.60.2016.2016-01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"74 1","pages":"13-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77177843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatial gradient in the distribution of whaler sharks (carcharhinidae) in Moreton Bay, southeastern Queensland","authors":"Stephen M. Taylor, Jeffrey W. Johnson, M. Bennett","doi":"10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2015.2014-08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2015.2014-08","url":null,"abstract":"Experimental gillnetting and setlining provided a detailed account of shark and ray composition at three shallow water sites in Moreton Bay between 2004 and 2007 (n=350 elasmobranchs). The species composition of elasmobranchs significantly differed between sites and shark abundance was highest at the western site (St Helena Island, Waterloo Bay). Juvenile Dusky (Carcharhinus obscurus) and Pigeye Sharks (C. amboinensis) were more abundant at the western site and appear to be rare in the eastern bay. Approximately 8% of the 206 tagged sharks were recaptured, 60% within two kilometres from their release position, with time at liberty ranging from four to 402 days. The results suggest that the documented east-west gradient in teleost diversity in Moreton Bay also extends to the Carcharhinidae. Further research is recommended to determine whether the diversity patterns observed from the three sites are broadly representative of each of these regions. Setlining and rod and line fishing for sharks in a deeper part of the bay between 1978 and 1992 (n=440 elasmobranchs) revealed a different species composition. The Spottail Shark (C. sorrah) and the Spinner Shark (C. brevipinna) comprised 50% and 39% of the catch in this deeper site, respectively, but were rarely caught in shallow regions of the bay, suggesting that the species composition is also partitioned by depth. Western fringes of the bay have been heavily modified by anthropogenic activities and the importance of this area to juvenile whaler sharks needs to be considered. Future sampling at the same fixed locations may provide the opportunity to examine whether recent re-zoning of the Marine Bay Marine Park in 2009, or other factors such as changes in commercial or recreational fishing, have influenced the species composition and abundance of sharks.","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"53 1","pages":"39-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85188031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Numerical analysis of the inter-relationships of some extinct and extant tax of Araucariaceae","authors":"H. T. Clifford, M. Dettmann, S. Hocknull","doi":"10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2015.2013-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2015.2013-04","url":null,"abstract":"The inter-relationships between extant and selected extinct taxa of Araucariaceae were explored using thirty morphological and anatomical characters. The sample of Araucariacae included all three extant genera of the family with three extinct species of Araucaria and the fossil genera Emwadea and Wairarapaia. The data were analysed using phenetic and cladistic methodology which revealed there was close agreement between the two when applied to extant taxa but not to extant plus extinct taxa. All analyses recognised that the araucarioid taxa with embedded seeds formed a group separate from the agathoid taxa whose seeds at maturity separate from the seed-scale. However, whereas the parsimony (cladistic) analyses failed to distinguish clades within Araucaria the phenetic analyses recognised four Sections within the genus and placed the three fossil species of Araucaria in Sect. Eutacta. The fossil genera Emwadea and Wairarapaia united with Agathis and Wollemia.  Araucariaceae, Wollemia, Emwadea, Wairarapaia, seed-cones, phylogeny. The description of Emwadea microcarpa Dettmann et al. (2012) based on permineralised seed-cones with preserved anatomy, from the mid-Cretaceous (late Albian) of western Queensland, adds to the data base of confirmed araucarian remains worldwide and supports the widely held view that during the Mesozoic and early Tertiary the family was more diverse than at present (Hill 1990; Cantrill 1992; Stockey 1994; Stockey et al. 1994; Pole 1995; Chambers et al. 1998; Hill & Brodribb 1999; Cantrill & Raine 2006; Dettmann et al. 2012) Whilst the araucarian affinities of many well preserved fossil seed-cones is not in doubt, their relationships with each other and with extant taxa has not been explored, until recently, by quantitative phenetic or cladistic analyses (Escapa & Catalano 2013). The extant Araucariaceae are represented by three genera Araucaria, Agathis and Wollemia (Farjon 2010), whose relationships have not been unambiguously established by cladistic studies based on gene sequencing data (Gilmore & Hill 1997; Stephanovic et al. 1998; Setoguchi et al. 1998; Codrington et al. 2002; Rai et al. 2008). Furthermore, these cladistic studies do not strongly support either the widely accepted four Sections into which extant Araucaria species were grouped by Wilde & Eames (1952) or the two Section grouping espoused by Laubenfels (1988). For example, whereas according to Setoguchi et al. (1998) Sect. Araucaria is the Clifford, Dettmann & Hocknull 28 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | Nature  2015  59 sister group to the clade Sects Bunya and Intermedia according to Gilmore & Hill (1997) it is the sister group to Sect. Eutacta. Such disparity may be a consequence of the current Sections being based on morphological and anatomical data derived from extant taxa and so do not take into account the structure of Mesozoic seed-cones that may share characters with more than one extant Section of Araucaria (Stockey 1994; Stockey et al. 19","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"1 1","pages":"27-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90861318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Memorium, Richard 'Dinosaur Dick' Suter (1935-2013)","authors":"T. Hurley, S. Hurley","doi":"10.17082/j.2204-1478.9.2015.2014-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.9.2015.2014-17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"22 1","pages":"24-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90305122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Taxonomy and redescription of the Swamp Antechinus, Antechinus minimus (E. Geoffroy) (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)","authors":"A. Baker, S. Dyck","doi":"10.17082/j.2204-1478.59.2015.2014-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.59.2015.2014-11","url":null,"abstract":"We provide a taxonomic redescription of the dasyurid marsupial Swamp Antechinus, Antechinus minimus (Geoffroy, 1803). In the past, A. minimus has been classified as two subspecies: the nominate A. minimus minimus (Geoffroy, 1803), which is found throughout much of Tasmania (including southern Bass Strait islands) and A. minimus maritimus (Finlayson, 1958), which is found on mainland Australia (as well as some near-coastal islands) and is patchily distributed in mostly coastal areas between South Gippsland (Victoria) and Robe (South Australia). Based on an assessment of morphology and DNA, we conclude that A. minimus is both distinctly different from all extant congeners and that the two existing subspecies of Swamp Antechinus are appropriately taxonomically characterised. In our genetic phylogenies, the Swamp Antechinus was monophyletic with respect to all 14 known extant congeners; moreover, A. minimus was well-positioned in a large clade, together with all four species in the Dusky Antechinus complex, to the exclusion of all other antechinus. Within A. minimus, between subspecies there were subtle morphological differences (A. m. maritimus skulls tend to be broader, with larger molar teeth, than A. m. minimus, but these differences were not significant); there was distinct, but only moderately deep genetic differences (3.9–4.5% at mtDNA) between A. minimus subspecies. Comparatively, across Bass Strait, the two subspecies of A. minimus are morphologically and genetically markedly less divergent than recently recognised species pairs within the Dusky Antechinus complex, found in Victoria (A. mimetes) and Tasmania (A. swainsonii) (9.4–11.6% divergent at mtDNA)","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86300721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Five new speicies of soil burrowing cockroaches from Queensland (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Geoscapheinae)","authors":"H. Rose, Jake Walker, J. Woodward","doi":"10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2014-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2014-02","url":null,"abstract":"Five new species of soil burrowing Geoscapheinae are described from Queensland: Macropanesthia intermorpha, M. lineopunctata, M. mutica, M. spuritegmina, and Neogeoscapheus hanni. Redescriptions of subfamilies Panesthiinae and Geoscapheinae are given, and a key to the genera of Geoscapheinae and keys to species of Macropanesthia and Neogeoscapheus are provided.  Blattodea, Blaberidae, Geoscapheinae, Panesthiinae, Australian ground burrowing cockroaches Within the cockroach family Blaberidae, the subfamily Geoscapheinae is an Australian endemic group of cockroaches living in perm­ anent burrows in sandy or loamy soils; their diet is dry leaves. The subfamily Panesthiinae occurs in India, Tibet, China, Japan, South East Asia, the island of New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia and some Pacific islands; most feed on rotting wood and two species are known to feed on dry leaves. The two subfamilies have close genetic affinities (Maekawa et al., 2003). Morphologically, the two subfamilies are very similar and the taxonomic division is based on two characters. The first is related to the absence of wings or tegmina in Geoscapheinae, and their presence or absence in Panesthiinae. Those Panesthia lacking wings or tegmina were differentiated from Geoscapheinae using the second character which relates to the laterocaudal angle of tergite 7. Roth (1977) differentiated Australian Panesthia from Geoscapheinae mainly on the basis of the laterocaudal angle of tergite 7: in Panesthiinae, if such a process is produced, it is directed caudally and not upwards, whereas in Geoscapheinae this process is ‘directed laterally or obliquely, and slightly or strongly dorsad’. This character was no longer useful in 1994 when Walker et al. described new species of Geoscapheinae, one of which had laterocaudal angles of tergite 7 produced acutely and directed ventrocaudally. In this paper we describe five new species of Geoscapheinae, one with processes at the laterocaudal angle of tergite 7 only very weakly produced, and we have therefore modified the descriptions of Australian Panesthiinae and Geoscapheinae to accommodate all known species. Herein are four new species of Macropanesthia from central and northern Rose, Walker & Woodward 12 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | Nature  2014  59 Queensland and one new Neogeoscapheus from northern Queensland, bringing the total number of Geoscapheinae to 24. Keys to Macropanesthia and Neogeoscapheus from Walker et al. (1994) have been modified. These are for adult specimens only, but may also be effective when applied to some late instar nymphs. Measurements are in millimetres and scale bars represent 5 mm. In descriptions of males, measurements of the holotype are given and those of paratypes are in brackets. Measurements of females refer to paratypes. Numbers of paratypes measured are in brackets. Terminology used for male genital phallomeres is that of McKittrick (1964) and Roth (1977).","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"35 1","pages":"11-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87210184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New records of blind snakes resembling the robust blind snake Anillos ligatus (Peters 1879), on Cape York Peninsula","authors":"A. Mcnab, M. G. Sanders","doi":"10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2014-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2014-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"8 1","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81936251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Range extension of the Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus (Monotremata: Tachyglossidae) and the Northern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon macrourus (Marsupialia: Peramelidae) in Queensland: Mua (Moa Island), Torres Strait","authors":"Garrick Hitchcock, Simon D. Conaty, D. Fell, G. Gordon, M. Ingram, T. Reis, D. J. Stanton, John N. Wigness","doi":"10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2013-06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2013-06","url":null,"abstract":"Until recently there have been no confirmed records of medium-sized native terrestrial mammals from the Torres Strait Islands, far north Queensland. The Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus Shaw, 1792) and the Northern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus Gould, 1842) are reported here occurring on Mua (Moa Island). This is the most northerly known occurrence of these species in Australia; both also occur in New Guinea.  Echidna, Bandicoot, Torres Strait Islands, refugial fauna, translocation, dispersal.","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89582161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Confirmation of the presence of the Spotted - tailed Quoll, Dasyurus maculatus (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia) from the late Pleistocene King Creek catchment, Darling Downs, south-eastern Queensland, Australia","authors":"Ian Sobbe, G. Price","doi":"10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2013-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17082/J.2204-1478.59.2014.2013-05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35552,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of the Queensland Museum","volume":"22 1","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83841867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}