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...A.M. Davenport; B.R. d’Anastasi; B.M. Fitzpatrick ABSTRACT Our understanding of the biology and ecology of many Australian marine snakes is inadequate to inform the conservation and management of their populations. Czeblukov’s true sea snake Hydrophis czeblukovi (Elapidae:Hydrophiinae...

...Richard Shine; Terri Shine; Claire Goiran ABSTRACT Common in Vanuatu, the Dwarf Sea Krait Laticauda frontalis also is known from five old records (in the 1880s and 1890s) from the Loyalty Islands, between Vanuatu and the main island of New Caledonia. Those records have been interpreted by some...

...Matt J. Nimbs ABSTRACT The Australian heterobranch sea slugs are popular among the public and are also important as potential indicators of environmental change. Despite this, there is no simple key for their identification and, as a result, most attempts at identification are made by comparative...

...John Ling Details of skin cargoes of fur seal Arctocephalus spp. and sea lion Neophoca cinerea and Phocarctos hookeri , originating from southern Australia, New Zealand and the adjacent subantarctic islands in the lath, 19th and 20th centuries have been collated from several secondary historicsl...

...Peter Shaughnessy; Terry Dennis; Dave Dowie; Jane McKenzie; Rebecca McIntosh The status of the Australian sea lion Neophoca cinerea at eight sites on Kangaroo Island was assessed using criteria adopted by the National Seal Strategy Group based on numbers of pups counted between 1985 and 2005. Each...

... south from the Cooloola sandmass to enter the sea just north of Noosa Heads (Thompson 1975). Vegetation of the coastal region includes heathland and sedgeland communities, Melaleuca quinqernervia (Swamp Paperbark) forests, low open to tall closed eucalyptus forests of E. tereticornis, E. bancroftii, E...

...Matt J. Nimbs; Stephen D. A. Smith ABSTRACT The aplysiid sea hare, Syphonota geographica has a predominantly circumtropical distribution. Over the last 15 years, it has spread throughout the eastern Mediterranean Sea where it is regarded as an alien, Lessepsian migrant. Observations from southern...

... in the Northern Territory, using Time-Depth Recorders (TDRs). Both populations displayed dive types typical of those described in other internesting sea turtles. Dives spent on the seabed were most prevalent, accounting for 57% of the time at depth. While on the sea bed, the turtles apparently remained inactive...

... around the edge of the lakes were surveyed at night for 30 minutes each. The first two survey sessions were conducted when the lakes were closed to the sea and their water levels relatively high. The next two survey sessions were conducted when Meroo Lake was open to the sea and the final one when...