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Review of the distribution and status of the bat fauna of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory

By Michael Pennay, Bradley Law, Daniel Lunney

Book: The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2011

10.7882/FS.2011.025

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3

... the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 . There are no threatened bats listed in the ACT under the Nature Conservation Act 1980 . We mapped the geographic distribution and relative density of specimen and observation data (excluding ultrasonic records because of the uncertainty of identification...

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Survey of bats on the south coast and ranges of the Shoalhaven region in New South Wales

Garry Daly, Glenn Hoye

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (4): 985–1013.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.042

Published: 11 November 2022

... flaviventris No captures were made of this high-flying species. A single specimen was observed at Tapitallee on a ridge in Turpentine Blue Gum forest over two nights in June 1997. It was also recorded from echolocation call at two low elevation sites. This species may be a seasonal vagrant within the study...

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Comparative census techniques and modelling of habitat utilization by reptiles in northern Victoria

By G. W. Brown, A. O. Nicholls

Book: Herpetology in Australia: A Diverse Discipline

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 1993

10.7882/RZSNSW.1993.042

EISBN: 0-9599951-8-8

... in the number of species recorded, but differed markedly in estimates of abundance. Transect censusing and active searching techniques provided comparable density estimates overall, in contrast to estimates using spot censusing which were markedly greater. Skinks constituted most of the records for all three...

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A review of the taxonomy and distribution of Australia’s endemic Calyptorhynchinae black cockatoos

Denis A Saunders, Geoffrey Pickup

Australian Zoologist (2023)

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.022

Published: 10 August 2023

... et al. (1984) were also examined and measured. Five hundred and fiftynine specimens (300 with red subterminal tail bands and 259 with white or yellow subterminal tail bands) had collecting localities recorded. These were the ones used in our analyses. The following data were recorded for each...

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Range extension of Czeblukov’s true sea snake Hydrophis czeblukovi (Elapidae:Hydrophiinae) southwest to Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia

A.M. Davenport, B.R. d’Anastasi, B.M. Fitzpatrick

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (3): 738–751.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.005

Published: 01 March 2022

... a recently dead H. czeblukovi specimen. This extends the species geographical range by approximately 300 kilometres southwest (minimum seaward distance). The stranding likely arose from the persistent onshore winds observed prior to the discovery or from self-stranding due to illness. This discovery brings...

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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 1–144.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.024

Published: 25 August 2023

... (Figure 4), but these were not abundant on the sites studied. There were no observations of shrubs being used as sources of nectar at Widgiemooltha and Norseman North. Non-nectar feeding Other than taking nectar, gleaning, and probing foliage and bark, and hawking were the most frequently recorded...

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First confirmed records of the Western Hooded Scaly-foot Pygopus nigriceps from New South Wales

George Madani

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (1): 102–106.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.017

Published: 01 October 2020

... an observational records of P. nigriceps in the Atlas of area of 272,920 km², only occurs in the extreme northwest the New South Wales Wildlife database (OEH 2020) corner of NSW (Bastin 2008). Only 4% of this bioregion remain unverifiable and are likely to be of P. schraderi. extends into NSW, where it forms...

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Loss of photoluminescence in wet-preserved rat and bandicoot specimens

Linda M. Reinhold

Australian Zoologist (2023)

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.027

Published: 07 September 2023

...Linda M. Reinhold ABSTRACT Museum specimens have been used as a convenient alternative to live or fresh animals in an increasing number of studies on fur photoluminescence. Although effects of chemical preservation on specimens have been noted, they have not been experimentally tested. I used...

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Photobleaching of pink photoluminescence in bandicoot fur

Linda M. Reinhold

Australian Zoologist (2023)

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.028

Published: 07 September 2023

... characteristics observed in wild animals, although not assessed in the same conditions. However, other studies using mostly museum specimens to determine the colours, brightness and extent of photoluminescence in mammal fur have reported more vivid photoluminescence in live or fresh animals. Olson et al. (2021...

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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (1): fmii–fmiclxvii.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.007

Published: 03 March 2022

... government area, with additional observations by other people and if specimens were lodged in the Australian Museum. Elliott recorded the dates for nesting and the arrival and departure of migratory species. Elliott used colloquial terms to describe many locations where he saw birds (see Figures 2 and 3...

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Impact of Black Summer 2019/20 Wildfires on True Bug Priority Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in the Northeast Forests of New South Wales

Gerasimos Cassis, Ryan Shofner, Shawn Laffan, Marina Cheng

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 352–385.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.032

Published: 10 August 2022

... the historic distribution records for the seven heteropteran priority species from the PBI database as the foundation for our study (Fig. 2). We used two criteria for determining our field survey sites within the Northeast Forest (NEF) envelope: (1) revisiting historical sites where specimens of our priority...

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Revision of the southern distribution limit for the tropical marine herbivore Syphonota geographica (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) (Heterobranchia: Aplysiidae) in a global climate change hot-spot

Matt J. Nimbs, Stephen D. A. Smith

Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (4): 582–589.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.019

Published: 01 September 2017

.... geographica is more likely to be observed at night. It is therefore possible that this specimen was moribund (Fig. 1D), explaining both the pale colouration and its presence on the surface during the day. At the time, this record was thought to be the first observation of this species at this location...

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An exploration of the evidence surrounding the identity of the last captive Thylacine

Gareth Linnard, Stephen R. Sleightholme

Australian Zoologist (2023)

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.034

Published: 31 October 2023

... to the Fleay film and to the photographs he then credited as being those of the last captive specimen: When visible, the Thylacines stripe pattern can be used to positively identify specimens in the photographic record. Sleightholme & Campbell (2015) note: As with human fingerprints, the stripe pattern...

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A significant range extension for the Western Soil-Crevice Skink Proablepharus reginae (Glauert 1960) and an updated reptile species list of Cape Range, Western Australia

Chad Beranek, Stephen Mahony, Shawn Scott

Australian Zoologist (2021) 42 (1): 146–155.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.029

Published: 31 August 2021

... and within the Cape Range IBRA sub-region (CAR01) (ALA 2020). Following capture, relevant texts (Storr et al. 1999; Wilson and Swan 2017) and database records representing museum specimens (ALA 2020) were reviewed to ascertain the known occupancy of CRNP by P. reginae. Previously unknown from the entirety...

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Bird species richness and abundance in remnant eucalypt forest on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales: A removal experiment

Harry F. Recher

Australian Zoologist (2023)

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.031

Published: 23 October 2023

... was expressed as the number of individuals collected for each species, a census was taken as the maximum number of individuals recorded for each species on any of the four counts. Birds were removed from BS 4 from 23 to 28 January 1980 using mist nets and by shooting. All collectors were experienced, so...

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Changes to the status of birds in the Tapitallee region on the south coast of New South Wales from 1928 to 2020

Garry Daly

Australian Zoologist (2021) 42 (1): 30–54.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.016

Published: 12 July 2021

View article titled, Changes to the status of birds in the Tapitallee region on the south coast of New South Wales from 1928 to 2020

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BATS of the Illawarra Region

N. H. Robinson

Australian Zoologist (2014) 22 (2): 1–4.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1985.003

Published: 17 March 2014

... and gorges in some locations. Two species of Megachiroptera and fourteen of Microchiroptera were recorded. Notes on the status and distribution elsewhere in Australia have been taken from Strahan (1983). These have been compared with the status in the lllawarra district. Specimens collected were lodged...

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Range extension of the Triodia Earless Skink Hemiergis millewae , and first record in New South Wales

Jules E. Farquhar

Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 636–640.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.022

Published: 01 June 2020

...Jules E. Farquhar ABSTRACT A specimen of the Triodia Earless Skink Hemiergis millewae was discovered on the Barrier Range of far-western New South Wales (NSW). This observation is significant because it constitutes the first record of the species in NSW and the Broken Hill Complex bioregion...

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Assessing the impact of the black summer fires on Kangaroo Island threatened invertebrates: towards rapid habitat assessments for informing targeted post-fire surveys

Jessica R. Marsh, Richard V. Glatz

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 479–501.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.029

Published: 13 July 2022

... the western margin of the island representing a significant range expansion west from the type locality. Specimen Records One of the known, non-fire affected locations was used to define the male stridulation using a bat detector. The stridulation of P. insulanus proved to be audible to the naked ear for some...

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Tepperotettix reliqua (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), a lonely Papuan relict in Australia

Niko Kasalo, Nicholas John Fisher, Evan Creek, Matthew Connors

Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 67–78.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.008

Published: 24 February 2023

... and methods The records of Tepperotettix reliqua were gathered through fieldwork conducted by the authors (Nicholas John Fisher and Evan Creek), examination of literature, through iNaturalist (2022), and from museum collections. The photographed living specimens were compared to the original description (Rehn...

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