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{"title":"Reproductive biology of the mice and rats (family Muridae) in New Guinea—diversity and evolution","authors":"W. Breed, C. Leigh, E. Peirce","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1733","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"303-316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48708520","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":"Genetic relationships of Long-nosed Potoroos Potorous tridactylus (Kerr, 1792) from the Bass Strait Islands, with notes on the subspecies Potorous tridactylus benormi Courtney, 1963","authors":"G. Frankham, L. Neaves, M. Eldridge","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1725","url":null,"abstract":"Bass Strait is an important biogeographic barrier for Australian mammals, often resulting in significant genetic differentiation between populations on the mainland and Tasmania for species with a trans-Bassian distribution. King and Flinders Islands, in Bass Strait, are the largest remnants of the land bridge that once linked Tasmania with mainland Australia. Due to their remote locality and habitat loss on the islands since European settlement, little is known about the evolutionary movements of species across the former land bridge. Here we present genetic data, generated from museum skins, on the King and Flinders Island populations of Long-nosed Potoroo, Potorous tridactylus (Kerr, 1792) to investigate their affinities with other populations of this species. We also assessed the validity of the subspecies Potorous tridactylus benormi Courtney, 1963 described from King Island. Analysis of two partial mitochondrial DNA genes (CO1, ND2) indicate that potoroos on King and Flinders Islands are more closely related to Tasmanian rather than mainland potoroo populations. Molecular and morphological data from the holotype and paratype of Potorous tridactylus benormi does not support separate taxonomic status and places it within the Tasmanian subspecies Potorous tridactylus apicalis (Gould, 1851).","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"263-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44199956","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 extinct False Vampire Bat (Megadermatidae: Macroderma) from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia","authors":"K. Armstrong, K. Aplin, M. Motokawa","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1732","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of False Vampire Bat (Megadermatidae), Macroderma handae sp. nov., is described from dental, dentary and maxillary fragments recovered from limestone deposits at Dingo Gap, Oscar Range, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This material is likely to be of Pliocene age, or early Pleistocene, based on biocorrelation within the same sample. The absence of the P2 indicates that it is more derived than Miocene taxa including M. malugara and M. godthelpi, but its phylogenetic position relative to M. koppa could not be determined. It appears to be slightly smaller than M. gigas and M. koppa based on the size of M1 and M2. It can be distinguished from M. gigas by the lesser degree of fenestration in the maxilla; and from all other species of Macroderma by the shape of the protofossa of the M1, plus the M2 protoconid relatively high and of proportionally greater area within the trigonid. Other material collected, but not identified completely or described, includes several lower canines from a species of emballonurid, and a dentary with M1-3 representing a vespertilionid bat. Given the wear striations observed on the M3 of the newly-described Macroderma species, we suggest that it was a predator of small vertebrates, including possibly the chiropteran co-inhabitants of the cave. This new species of Macroderma is the sixth species recognized in the genus so far, and the second from the Pliocene.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"161-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47421789","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":"Expanding population edge craniometrics and genetics provide insights into dispersal of commensal rats through Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia","authors":"Julien Louys, Michael B. Herrera, V. Thomson, A. Wiewel, S. Donnellan, S. O’Connor, K. Aplin","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1730","url":null,"abstract":"The Nusa Tenggara island chain consists of an archipelago that runs roughly east-west in eastern Indonesia. As part of Wallacea, it has never been connected to any continental landmass, and has been subject to a variety of biological invasions that have populated the islands. Here, we examine the craniometric and molecular genetic records of several species of Rattus sensu lato in the island chain. We use the predictions of expanding population edge phenotypic selection in an effort to understand the movement of Rattus rattus and Rattus exulans through the archipelago. We also examine the mitochondrial haplotype networks of R. argentiventer, R. exulans, and the R. rattus Complex (RrC) and microsatellite allele frequency clustering patterns for the RrC, to examine relationships within and between Nusa Tenggara populations, and those of Asia and the Pacific where relevant for each taxon. In the RrC LIV and RrC LII haplotype networks, 20 haplotypes with seven from Nusa Tenggara were observed for RrC LIV, and 100 haplotypes with seven from Nusa Tenggara observed for RrC LII. The top performing RrC craniometric model had a negative association between size and distance from the easternmost point of the samples from Nusa Tenggara, consistent with increasing size moving west to east. The cytochrome b network for the R. exulans sequences comprised 14 haplotypes, with three observed from mainland Southeast Asia, one shared with Nusa Tenggara and regions further east, and another haplotype observed in Nusa Tenggara and in the Pacific. The R. exulans craniometric model selection produced four equally well performing models, with no migration scenario preferred. Finally, the haplotype network of R. argentiventer comprised 10 haplotypes, with six observed in Nusa Tenggara, including a relatively early cluster from the east of the archipelago. Our results are compatible with a polyphasic and polydirectional invasion of Nusa Tenggara by Rattus, likely beginning with RrC from the west to the east, an expansion of R. exulans from Flores, seemingly in no preferred overall direction, and finally the invasion of R. argentiventer from the east to the west. We find some support for the Dong Son drum maritime exchange network contributing to the distribution of the latter species.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"287-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43093347","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":"Fossil Uromys (Rodentia: Murinae) from central Queensland, with a description of a new Middle Pleistocene species","authors":"Jonathan Cramb, S. Hocknull, G. Price","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1731","url":null,"abstract":"The first fossil species of Uromys (Giant Naked-tailed Rats) is described, as well as the southernmost records of the genus based on palaeontological data. Uromys aplini sp. nov. lived during the Middle Pleistocene in the area around Mount Etna, eastern central Queensland, but was probably driven extinct by climate-mediated habitat loss sometime after 205 ka but before c. 90 ka. A second species, the extant U. caudimaculatus, occurred in the area during the Late Pleistocene, but became locally extinct prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. These fossils indicate an unexpectedly high diversity of species of Uromys in Australia, suggesting a long occupation of the continent. Phylogenetic analysis places U. aplini together with other species of Uromys endemic to Australia, at the base of the radiation of the genus. This may indicate that the initial diversification of Uromys occurred in Australia rather than New Guinea, as has previously been thought. These new Quaternary records of Uromys occur approximately 550 km south of the southern-most modern record for the genus, indicating that Uromys was able to cross the southern St Lawrence biogeographic barrier, possibly twice during the Pleistocene.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"175-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42570790","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":"Characterizing environmental change and species’ histories from stratified faunal records in southeastern Australia: a regional review and a case study for the early to middle Holocene","authors":"Fenja Theden-Ringl, G. Hope, Kathleen P. Hislop, Benedict Keaney","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1722","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the potential contribution of faunal assemblages from the Australian Alps and surrounding regions towards the characterization of climate and landscape change, and for geochronological species distribution mapping. The limitations of existing faunal sites and collections—their rarity, their stratigraphic integrity and resolution, and accurate dating of their histories—are discussed in a regional review of known and potential assemblages and locations. We also revisit a faunal sequence from a stratified cave deposit at Wee Jasper, focusing on a Holocene “climatic optimum” phase. A suite of species fluctuations between 8000 and 6000 cal. BP suggests responses to local changes such as a warmer and possibly moister environment, with probable associated vegetation shifts. For example, eucalypt forests had replaced more open communities across the region by 8600 cal. BP, and were generally dominant until after 6000 cal. BP. Several faunal species are examined in a regional context using available chronologically defined species histories. Emerging robust multi-proxy investigations demonstrate the potential of faunal assemblages for the development of geographically detailed histories of species that can provide indications of palaeoenvironments. This approach can be strengthened by increasing resolution and developing improved age models in presently known fauna-bearing sites.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"207-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43209139","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":"The lives of creatures obscure, misunderstood, and wonderful: a volume in honour of Ken Aplin 1958–2019","authors":"K. Helgen, Julien Louys, S. O’Connor","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1734","url":null,"abstract":"[Excerpt] He was always a modest man, but Ken was a genius and the toughest man we knew. He was also extraordinarily generous of spirit. The way he gave of himself, his time, and his hard-won stores of knowledge, was legendary amongst his friends and colleagues. We admired him and we loved him. Ken was a world-renowned comparative anatomist, vertebrate systematist, palaeontologist, and zooarchaeologist. He was a problem solver like few we’ve ever met, and a fieldworker and world traveller par excellence. Ken’s personal and professional outlook embraced the whole world, in all its true facets and flavours, its complexities and eccentricities—he took the world, and all of us in it, as we came. His intellectual reputation extended well beyond Australia and was known to thousands of colleagues who may never have had the chance to meet him.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"149-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47596419","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":"Metal-Age maritime culture at Jareng Bori rockshelter, Pantar Island, eastern Indonesia","authors":"S. Hawkins, Fayeza Shasliz Arumdhati, Mirani Litster, Tse Siang Lim, Gina Basile, M. Leclerc, C. Reepmeyer, T. Maloney, C. Boulanger, Julien Louys, Mahirta Mahirta, G. Clark, Gendro Keling, R. Willan, Pratiwi Yuwono, S. O’Connor","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1726","url":null,"abstract":"The archaeological record of Wallacea remains exceptionally fragmentary. This is especially the case for late Holocene human occupation of the region when lifestyle and culture in marginal island environments is relatively unknown. Here we report on the archaeology of Jareng Bori rockshelter, a Metal-Age site spanning c. 1800 cal. BP up to the late historic period and situated on the eastern coast of Pantar Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of eastern Indonesia. We use osteoarchaeological (human and vertebrate remains), invertebrate zooarchaeological (crustacean and molluscan remains), technological (lithics, shell, and pottery) and chemical sourcing (obsidian and metal) datasets to discuss networking, migration, and human subsistence strategies during this recent period of history. While some communities were no doubt living in open village settlements where they were producing pottery, the data indicate that aspects of maritime life-ways continued much as in earlier Pleistocene settlements, with people using rockshelters like Jareng Bori to pursue a range of subsistence activities focused on the shoreline. Shellfishing of rocky and reef intertidal species and fishing for mostly small herbivorous and omnivorous fishes was practised, while domestic animals only appear in the late historic period. Wider regional cultural interactions and networking are epitomized by obsidian exchange, dental modification practices, and pottery decorations, while lithic analyses indicates continuity of stone tool technology up until recent times.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"237-262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44318843","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":"Evolutionary history of the subgenus Mus in Eurasia with special emphasis on the House Mouse Mus musculus","authors":"Hitoshi Suzuki","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1727","url":null,"abstract":"Elucidation of the evolutionary history of the subgenus Mus, including the House Mouse Mus musculus, is essential to understanding species diversification mechanisms in the Indomalayan region, which is a global biodiversity hotspot. In terms of interspecific relationships, the topography of India, Myanmar, and other Southeast Asian regions has been proposed to explain the speciation process and ecological niche diversification followed by range overlap after speciation. Recent research into mitochondrial DNA clocks has created the opportunity to reconstruct the detailed dynamics of M. musculus as affected by human activity. The resultant evolutionary scenarios are in good accordance with archaeological evidence observed in Asia, especially in China, Korea, and Japan.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"317-323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45455225","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":"Litoria aplini sp. nov., a new species of treefrog (Pelodryadidae) from Papua New Guinea","authors":"S. Richards, S. Donnellan","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"72 1","pages":"325-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42833229","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}