{"title":"Amazing diversity of Nothria (Annelida, Onuphidae) in the Australian deep sea","authors":"H. Paxton, N. Budaeva, L. Gunton","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1802","url":null,"abstract":"The epibenthic onuphid genus Nothria Malmgren, 1867 presently comprises 21 accepted species. We are reporting here on specimens collected during six deep-sea expeditions of the RV Investigator from 2015–2018 to the Great Australian Bight (GAB) and off eastern Australia from Tasmania to Queensland, describing eight new species of Nothria. This is the first integrated study of the genus, sequencing the markers COI, 16S rDNA and 28S rDNA from 37 specimens and employing conventional and exploratory morphological characters as well as tube consistency and structure for identification. Molecular data provided strong support for recognition of the eight new species and the Nothria otsuchiensis Imajima, 1986 species complex. Since the analysis of morphology between the specimens of this complex has not revealed any obvious differences, it may represent a complex of cryptic species. Nothria digitata sp. nov. was collected at a depth of 400 m whilst the remaining seven new species are from depths of 980–2751 m. Nothria deltasigma sp. nov., N. digitata sp. nov. and N. minima sp. nov. were collected at a single station each, while N. josae sp. nov. and N. simplex sp. nov. were found at two stations. However, N. delta sp. nov. displayed the widest distribution, occurring at GAB, Tasmania and Jervis Bay Marine Park, NSW. Most stations yielded only one species, Jervis Bay Marine Park and south of Brians, Tasmania, harboured two, but an astounding example of sympatry was discovered at Huon Marine Park, Tasmania, where three species, N. delta sp. nov., N. lizae sp. nov. and N. orensanzi sp. nov. were collected together in one station.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47716725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of the mysterious genus Spirodiscus (Annelida: Serpulidae) of the eastern Australian abyss","authors":"E. Kupriyanova, Beth Flaxman","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1801","url":null,"abstract":"In May–June 2017 an expedition on board RV Investigator sampled benthic communities along the lower slope and abyss of Australia’s eastern margin from off mid-Tasmania to the Coral Sea. Over 200 annelids of the family Serpulidae collected during the voyage were collected and deposited in the Australian Museum in Sydney. Among them there was a new species of the poorly known abyssal (3754–4378 m) genus Spirodiscus. Serpulids typically build cylindrical calcareous tubes attached to hard substrates. Until now, only three serpulid species inhabiting free-lying polygonal tubes were reported from the deep sea: Spirodiscus grimaldii Fauvel, 1909 with quadrangular spirally coiled tubes, Bathyditrupa hovei Kupriyanova, 1993 with quadrangular tusk-shaped tubes, and Spirodiscus groenlandicus (McIntosh, 1877) with octagonal tusk-shaped tubes. The new species, S. ottofinamusi sp. nov. has very characteristic thin tusk-shaped unattached fluted tubes similar to those found in S. groenlandicus, but it differs by the details of collar, thoracic tori and abdominal chaetae. Morphologically, it has a pinnulated opercular peduncle and flat geniculate abdominal chaetae like filogranin serpulids but lacks thoracic Apomatus chaetae like serpulins. The first DNA sequences of this mysterious taxon places the new species within the filogranins in sister group relationship with Chitinopoma serrula.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43338418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mysid subfamily Boreomysinae (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) in the southeast Australian deep-sea","authors":"M. Daneliya","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1845","url":null,"abstract":"The deep-water mysid crustaceans of Australia have been barely known. Recent explorations of RV Investigator (CSIRO) in the southeast Australian waters discovered a unique fauna. In this special study of the marine subfamily Boreomysinae (family Mysidae) in Australia, five species from both genera Boreomysis and Neobirsteiniamysis are reported, including two new species for science: B. inopinata sp. nov., B. sibogae, B. sphaerops, B. urospina sp. nov. and N. inermis. Among the members of the subfamily, only B. sibogae has been previously known from Australia. The genus Neobirsteiniamysis and its bipolar-amphitropical species N. inermis are firstly recorded in Australia. Boreomysis inopinata sp. nov. has additional spinules on the outer spine of the antennal scale, which are not found in other species of the subfamily. Boreomysis urospina sp. nov. has the longest first segment of the uropodal exopod, laterally terminated by three spiniform setae; and its uropodal endopod is armed with up to five medial spiniform setae, the largest number in the subfamily. This species is included in a newly established subgenus Petryashovia subgen. nov., which unites epi-mesopelagic boreomysines, lacking the rostral projection, having rather small ventrolateral lobes of the carapace, and the 1-segmented propodus of the pereopods. The subfamily and generic diagnoses are updated. Additionally, a fragment of the mtDNA COI gene was sequenced for most of the studied species.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48179771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on mammals collected on the 1885 Geographical Society of Australasia’s Expedition to New Guinea","authors":"H. Parnaby, Peter D. Dwyer, K. Helgen","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1828","url":null,"abstract":"In 1885 the Geographical Society of Australasia sent the steam launch Bonito to chart the Fly and Strickland Rivers (now in Western Province, Papua New Guinea). The Expedition spent five months in New Guinea with the primary objectives of survey and biological exploration. The type locality of the murid rodent Melomys muscalis froggatti Troughton, 1937, described from a single specimen obtained during the Expedition, is localized to the region of the base camp at Observation Bend, Strickland River, based on the original Expedition maps and the unpublished diary reminiscence of the collector W. W. Froggatt. A review of the mammal collection obtained during that Expedition has not been reported previously, perhaps due to the poor surviving documentation. Several months after the Expedition returned to Sydney, Australian Museum curator E. P. Ramsay prepared a list of 22 mammal specimens received by the Museum. Twenty specimens attributed to the Expedition were not entered into the collection registers until 1913, half of which are likely to be incorrectly associated with the Expedition. Most specimens were registered with very limited data about collection date and locality. Of the 22 specimens originally received by Ramsay, eight rodents and two flying foxes (Pteropus spp.) have not been located in the Collection, but might remain unrecognized as specimens with no data. It is possible that additional mammal specimens were sent by the Geographical Society of Australasia to other institutions at the conclusion of the Expedition.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42318035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new subspecies of Philiris diana Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from the Wet Tropics of northern Australia","authors":"B. Hacobian, M. Braby, E. Petrie","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1826","url":null,"abstract":"Philiris diana Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 from the Wet Tropics of northeastern Queensland was previously thought to be monotypic, being most closely related to Philiris papuanus Wind & Clench, 1947 from Cape York Peninsula, Australia, and mainland New Guinea. However, a new subspecies was recently discovered on the Atherton Tableland, which we illustrate, diagnose and describe as Philiris diana fortuna ssp. nov. It appears to be a narrow-range endemic, restricted to montane forest (750–1,090 m asl) and allopatric or parapatric from the nominotypical subspecies Philiris diana diana Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914, which is largely restricted to low to mid-altitude forests in the coastal escarpment in the Cairns-Kuranda district. Despite being separated by a minimum distance of only 20–25 km, the two taxa show substantial phenotypic differences in wing pattern elements, but negligeable differences according to the mitochondrial COI barcode region (mean p-distance = 0.28%). The habitat and biology of the new taxon are summarized, and likely historical processes driving divergence between upland and lowland populations of this species hypothesized.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47755387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delineating Paralaoma annabelli, a minute land snail impacted by the 2019–2020 wildfires in Australia","authors":"Junn Kitt Foon, P. Green, F. Köhler","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1824","url":null,"abstract":"The 2019–2020 megafires in eastern Australia have devastated large parts of the known distributional range of the minute land snail Paralaoma annabelli, prompting conservation concerns for this species. However, this species is poorly defined thus hampering its accurate identification and the delineation of its distribution. Most crucially, it has been questionable if and how P. annabelli could be distinguished from another Australian congener, Paralaoma morti. This systematic ambiguity posed a problem in assessing the impact of the 2019–2020 wildfires in Australia on this species. Herein, we demonstrate, based on comparative morphometrics as well as analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, that P. annabelli is indeed distinct from a second widespread species of Paralaoma, which is identified as P. morti by some workers. Yet, sequences of P. morti cluster closely with non-Australian sequences of the globally distributed species P. servilis. Therefore, the taxonomic status of P. morti in relation to P. servilis remains to be investigated. Our comparative morphological analyses revealed that P. annabelli is significantly smaller than P. morti, has a significantly flatter shell, more elongated aperture, lower spire, and tighter coiling whorls. With the revised diagnosis of P. annabelli, we have delineated its distribution in New South Wales based on the examination of all available museum samples. We show that P. annabelli is primarily found at higher elevations in the Great Dividing Range while P. morti is widespread in eastern Australia. In addition, molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal that the genera Pseudiotula, Iotula, Trocholaoma and Miselaoma, all described based only on shell characteristics, form a single clade with the abovementioned species of Paralaoma. This reveals the inadequacies of a purely shell-based taxonomy in punctids and highlights the need for a more integrative approach to punctid systematics.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42819766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A remarkable new species of scuttle fly and first record of Microselia Schmitz (Diptera: Phoridae) from Australia","authors":"R. Cox, Natalie A. Tees","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1825","url":null,"abstract":"A remarkable new species, Microselia lorien, from northern coastal New South Wales, Australia is described and illustrated. This is the first record of the genus Microselia in Australia. With the previously described species occurring in the Afrotropical (6), Neotropical (1), Palaearctic (7), Nearctic (1) regions (Systema Dipterorum, 2022). The species discovered in Australia is new to science.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47703169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of Tasmanian mountain shrimp, Anaspides driesseni sp. nov. (Malacostraca, Anaspidacea, Anaspidesidae)","authors":"Christoph G. Höpel, S. Richter, S. Ahyong","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1829","url":null,"abstract":"Species of the genus Anaspides, known as mountain shrimps, are endemic to Tasmania and inhabit a variety of freshwater habitats such as mountain tarns, pools, creeks and runnels, as well as caves. Until 2015 only two species of Tasmanian mountain shrimps were recognized, A. tasmaniae (Thomson, 1893), which was believed to be widespread all over the island and A. spinulae from Lake St. Clair. Revision of the genus by Ahyong in 2016 recognized 7 species, most having narrow geographic distributions. Only two widespread species remained: A. richardsoni, occurring mainly on the Central Plateau and its margins, and A. swaini, occurring largely in south-western Tasmania. Notably, within A. swaini, three geographically correlated morphological forms were observed. We re-evaluated all three forms of A. swaini and herein describe one of the forms as a new species, A. driesseni, on the basis of morphological and molecular data. Anaspides driesseni corresponds to A. swaini form 3 and occurs mainly in south-eastern Tasmania from the Hartz Mountains over the Snowy Mountains to the Wellington Range. Telson structure, spination and male secondary sexual characters proved taxonomically instrumental.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42446616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Risa genus-group (Diptera: Ephydridae), with description of a new genus from Australia","authors":"W. Mathis, T. Zatwarnicki","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1823","url":null,"abstract":"The systematic and somewhat controversial history of Risa Becker is presented, and its relationship with Diasemocera Bezzi (tribe Psilopini, Ephydridae) is documented by morphological evidence and an association with host plants in the family Amaranthaceae. The tribe Risini Papp (as Risidae) is synonymized with Psilopini Cresson. Notorisa gen. nov., from Australia, is described (type species: Notorisa mcalpinei sp. nov.; Australia. Victoria: Big Desert National Park, near Lake Hindmarsh; 36°03.7'S 141°54.8'E). Achaetorisa Papp is retained as a subgenus within Risa and includes five species, including two new combinations: Risa brevicornis (Papp) comb. nov., Risa salsolae (Mathis & Zatwarnicki) comb. nov., and two new species: R. brevirostris sp. nov. (Israel. Ẕomet Zohar; 31°08.5'N 35°21.6'E) and R. nettae sp. nov. (Israel. Ẕomet Zohar; 31°08.5'N 35°21.6'E). A fourth new species is described in the subgenus Risa: R. (Risa) kotrbae sp. nov. (Israel. Ẕomet Zohar; 31°08.5'N 35°21.6'E).","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48785760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On some silverfish taxa from the Mildura region (inland south-eastern Australia) (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae: Ctenolepismatinae)","authors":"Graeme B. Smith, A. Mitchell","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.74.2022.1822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.74.2022.1822","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42565597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}