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Anatemnus Wongalara
''Anatemnus wongalara'' is a species of pseudoscorpion in the Atemnidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 2021 by Australian arachnologists Mark Harvey and Karen Cullen. The specific epithet ''wongalara'' ('common') refers to the type locality. Description The body length of the male holotype is 2.78 mm; that of the female paratype 2.80 mm. The colour of the pedipalps is reddish-brown, the carapace paler, and the legs yellowish-brown. Distribution and habitat The species occurs in the Top End of the Northern Territory. The type locality is Bokalla Creek in the Wongalara Sanctuary, where the pseudoscorpions were found in tropical vine thicket litter on a low rocky hill. Behaviour The pseudoscorpions are terrestrial predators Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Harvey (arachnologist)
Mark Stephen Harvey (born 17 September 1958) is a museum scientist and biologist. Since 1989 he has been based at the Western Australian Museum as Curator of Arachnids and Myriapods. Career Harvey graduated from Monash University in 1983 with a PhD titled "Contributions to the systematics of the Pseudoscorpionida (Arachnida) : the genus ''Synsphyronus'' Chamberlin (Garypidae) and the family Sternophoridae". His research interests include the systematics and evolution of arachnids and other terrestrial invertebrates. He has published 374 scientific papers or books, and was instrumental in the promotion of short-range endemism Short-range endemic invertebrates through a paper outlining the criteria for recognising taxa that could be considered short-range endemics. His primary research interests are with Pseudoscorpions. As of 2024, he has described 888 new species, 93 new genera and four new families including the aquatic mite family Pezidae and the pseudoscorpion family Lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top End
The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory is a geographical region encompassing the northernmost section of the Northern Territory, which aside from the Cape York Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Australian continent. It covers a rather vaguely defined area of about behind the northern coast from the Northern Territory capital of Darwin across to Arnhem Land with the Indian Ocean on the west, the Arafura Sea to the north, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east, and with the almost waterless semi-arid interior of Australia to the south, beyond the huge Kakadu National Park. The Top End contains the Territory's regional center and its capital city, Darwin, as well as major towns such as Palmerston and Katherine. The well-known town of Alice Springs is located further south, in the arid southern part of the Northern Territory, sometimes referred to by Australians as the Red Centre. The landscape is relatively flat with river floodplains and grasslands with e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animals Described In 2021
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia (). With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are motility, able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of Cell (biology), cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Animals form a clade, meaning that they arose from a single common ancestor. Over 1.5 million extant taxon, living animal species have been species description, described, of which around 1.05 million are insects, over 85,000 are molluscs, and around 65,000 are vertebrates. It has been estimated there are as many as 7.77 million animal species on Earth. Animal body lengths range from to . They have complex ecologies and biological interaction, interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology, and the study of animal behavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
