Measuring changes in molecular and geographical distribution after forty years of a possible endemic genus of South Australian Collembola (Springtail)

Title: Measuring changes in molecular and geographical distribution after forty years of a possible endemic genus of South Australian Collembola (Springtail)
Creator: Stevens, Mark; Greenslade, Penelope; Porco, David
Date: 2014
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/71981
Identifier: vital:6866
Identifier: ISSN:0038-2965
Abstract: In the early 1970s several slides of an unusual Collembola (Springtail), labelled from Muston, Kangaroo Island by Herbert Womersley in 1943, were found in the South Australian Museum. These slides were in poor condition and were labelled "Ceratrimeria cooperi" but the species was never described. Extensive collections in South Australia throughout the 1970s and early 1980s showed that the species occurred fairly widely in the State, and it seemed to be most abundant on Kangaroo Island. Later taxonomic work on the related genus Ceratrimeria and allied genera in Australia has indicated that the South Australian species belonged to a new genus, possibly one of the few genera of Collembola likely to be endemic to South Australia.
Relation: The South Australian Naturalist Vol. 87, no. 1 (2014), p. 18-21
Rights: Copyright Field Naturalists' Society of South Australia
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Collembola; Zoological specimens; Cladistic analysis
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