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List Of Australian Birds
This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory. The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Macquarie and Heard/McDonald. The list includes introduced species, common vagrants and recently extinct species. It excludes species only present in captivity. 965 extant and extinct species are listed. There have been three comprehensive accounts: the first was John Goulds ''Birds of Australia'', the second Gregory Mathews, and third was the ''Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds'' (1990-2006). The taxonomy originally followed is from Christidis and Boles, 2008. Their system has been developed over nearly two decades and has strong local support, but deviates in important ways from more generally accepted schemes. Supplemental updates follow ''The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Map With Outlying Islands
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east, and mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately 65,000 years ago, during the last ice age.religious_traditions_in_the_world._Australia's_history_of_Australia.html" "title="The_Dreaming.html" "title="Aboriginal_Art.html" "title="he Story of Australia's People, Volume 1: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia, Penguin Books Australia Ltd., Vic., 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extant Taxon
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, '' recent'') organisms. It is the study of extant taxa (singular: extant taxon): taxa (such as species, genera and families) with members still alive, as opposed to (all) being extinct. For example: * The moose (''Alces alces'') is an extant species, and the dodo (''Raphus cucullatus'') is an extinct species. * In the group of molluscs known as the cephalopods, there were approximately 600 extant species and 7,500 extinct species. A taxon can be classified as extinct if it is broadly agreed or certified that no members of the group are still alive. Conversely, an extinct taxon can be reclassified as extant if there are new discoveries of living species ("Lazarus species"), or if previously-known extant species are reclassified as members of the taxon. Most biologists, zoologists, and botanists are in practice neontologists, and the term neontologist is used large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casuariidae
The bird family Casuariidae has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary and the emu. All living members of the family are very large flightless birds native to Australia-New Guinea.Clements, J (2007) Species *† ''Emuarius'' Boles, 1992 (emuwaries) (Late Oligocene – Late Miocene) **† ''Emuarius gidju, E. gidju'' (Patterson & Rich 1987) Boles, 1992 **† ''Emuarius guljaruba, E. guljaruba'' Boles, 2001 *''Casuarius'' Brisson, 1760 (cassowary) **† ''Casuarius lydekkeri, C. lydekkeri'' Rothschild, 1911 (Pygmy cassowary) ** ''Casuarius casuarius, C. casuarius'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Southern cassowary) ** ''Casuarius unappendiculatus, C. unappendiculatus'' Blyth, 1860 (Northern cassowary) ** ''Casuarius bennetti, C. bennetti'' Gould, 1857 (Dwarf Cassowary) *** ''Casuarius bennetti westermanni, C. b. westermanni'' (Sclater, 1874) (Papuan dwarf cassowary) *** ''Casuarius bennetti bennetti, C. b. bennetti'' Gould, 1857 (Bennett's cassowary) * ''Dromaius'' Vieillot, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
