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Mount Finke
Mount Finke is a monadnock in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Yellabinna about north of Ceduna. In 1999, it was described as follows:It is about 5km long with an elevation of 369 m AHD, it stands about 270m above the surrounding landscape. Mt Finke is an isolated block of steeply dipping quartzite believed to be part of a landform dating back some 250 Ma. It was named by John McDouall Stuart, the British explorer, on 7 August 1858 after William Finke who was a friend "associated with mining & pastoral activities." It has a locally diverse flora and fauna, including 266 plant species. The open shrubland occurs on thin soils over quartzite with the most common species including Victoria Spring Mallee ('' Eucalyptus trivialis''), Mulga ('' Acacia aneura''), Ooldea Mallee ('' Eucalyptus youngiana'') and Porcupine Grass ('' Triodia irritans).'' '' Grevillea treueriana'' is endemic to the Mount Finke area. Fauna species include the Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellabinna, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Yellabinna is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located to the north of the town of Ceduna in the western part of the state. The locality was established on 26 April 2013 in respect to “the long established local name.” Its name is derived from the use of “Yellabinna” in the names of the Yellabinna Regional Reserve and the Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area. Yellabinna is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral districts of Flinders and Giles, and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia. The land use within Yellabinna is mainly concerned with the following protected areas - the Boondina Conservation Park, the Yellabinna Regional Reserve and the Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area, although the extraction of heavy mineral sands is underway as of 2013 by Iluka Resources at the Jacinth-Ambrosia Mine in the west of the locality. Surrounding localities Yellabinna which is bounded in part to the nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triodia Irritans
''Triodia irritans'' is a species of plant that forms low and dense mounds of tough grassy vegetation. It is found on sandplains in arid regions of southern and central Australia. The species was first described by Robert Brown in 1810. A common name for this and other species of '' Triodia'' is porcupine grass. ''Triodia irritans'' is found on red and grey sands in Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory, where it dominates a plain, dune or rocky hill as tussocks. Flowering occurs throughout the year. Its leaves are sharp and can easily penetrate human skin. The plant's flammability can lead to extremely fast-moving wildfires. A minute species of dasyurid marsupial, ''Ningaui yvonneae The southern ningaui (''Ningaui yvonneae'') is a tiny marsupial carnivore belonging to the Dasyuridae family. Similar in appearance to '' Ningaui ridei'', found throughout central Australia, this species occurs in spinifex on semi-arid sandplai ...'', favours the prot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area
Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Yellabinna about north of the town of Ceduna. The wilderness protection area was proclaimed under the ''Wilderness Protection Act 1992'' on 11 August 2005 on land previously originally part of the Yellabinna Regional Reserve. In 2016, its wilderness qualities were reported as follows:Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area forms a link between vegetation communities in southeastern Western Australia and Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area contains a variety of woodland and scrubland communities dominated by Eucalyptus species or Acacia species over dunes and swales and small patches of diverse communities over rocky outcrops. A variety of threatened species have been recorded within the reserve, with additional species considered likely to occur in the area. The enhanced protection of the reserve may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protected Area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international organizations involved. Generally speaking though, protected areas are understood to be those in which human presence or at least the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood, non-timber forest products, water, ...) is limited. The term "protected area" also includes marine protected areas, the boundaries of which will include some area of ocean, and transboundary protected areas that overlap multiple countries which remove the borders inside the area for conservation and economic purposes. There are over 161,000 protected areas in the world (as of October 2010) with more added daily, representing between 10 and 15 percent of the world's land surface area. As of 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paropsisterna Bimaculata
''Paropsisterna bimaculata'' is a beetle commonly called a leaf beetle in the subfamily Chrysomelinae The Chrysomelinae are a subfamily of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), commonly known as broad-bodied leaf beetles or broad-shouldered leaf beetles. It includes some 3,000 species around the world. The best-known member is the notorious Colorado po ....This insect is common in Tasmania and can be a pest in the forestry industry. Paropsisterna bimaculata will develop a red color just before their winter hibernation. When they emerge the red slowly disappears into a pale green colouring with faint gold tessellation. This takes about a month with the males generally slightly advanced. Recently this beetle has been noticed in Victoria. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q22106478 Beetles of Australia Chrysomelinae Taxa named by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier Beetles described in 1807 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artamus Minor
The little woodswallow (''Artamus minor''), is a bird patchily distributed over much of mainland Australia, avoiding only the driest deserts and the area within about 300 kilometres of the southern coastline, and showing a preference for rugged terrain around inland ranges. As its name suggests, at 12 to 14 cm in length it is the smallest of the woodswallows. It is dark, smoky brown overall, with deep gunmetal grey wings and a black-tipped, blue-tinged bill. Like other woodswallows, groups cluster huddled close together on high, dead branches to rest or sleep. Typical group sizes are modest but it is not uncommon to have hundreds gather together at a roost site. Little woodswallows soar effortlessly above the treetops or along cliff faces when hunting flying insects—being small, they are easily confused with martins. The nest is a rudimentary affair, placed in a tree hollow or similar space, and made of twigs and other vegetable matter. Breeding takes place from Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ctenophorus Fionii
''Ctenophorus'' is a genus of lizards, commonly known as comb-bearing dragons, in the family Agamidae. The genus contains the most diverse group of dragon lizards in Australia. It is the largest group of Australian lizards and it has an extensive radiation in the arid zones. Many of the species of ''Ctenophorus'' have been grouped by a similar morphology. The informal names and groupings within this genus — rock dragon, crevice-dragon, ground-dragon, sand-dragon, and bicycle-dragon — are named after the mythological creature, the dragon. Lizards in the genus ''Ctenophorus'' may be confused with lizards in the genera '' Tympanocryptis'' and ''Diporiphora''. Swan G, Shea G, Sadlier R (2004) ''A Field Guide to Reptiles of New South Wales''. Sydney, New South Wales: Reed New Holland. . Species There are 34 recognized species in the genus. *'' Ctenophorus adelaidensis'' (Gray, 1841) – western heath dragon *'' Ctenophorus butlerorum'' (Storr, 1977) – Butler's dragon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macropus Robustus
The common wallaroo (''Osphranter robustus''), also known as the euro, hill wallaroo, or simply wallaroo, is a species of macropod. The word ''euro'' is particularly applied to one subspecies (''O. r. erubescens'').WE Poole and JC Merchant (1987): ''Reproduction in Captive Wallaroos - the Eastern Wallaroo, Macropus-Robustus-Robustus, the Euro, Macropus-Robustus-Erubescens and the Antilopine Wallaroo, Macropus-Antilopinus.'' Australian Wildlife Research 14(3) 225 - 242online link/ref> The eastern wallaroo is mostly nocturnal and solitary, and is one of the more common macropods. It makes a loud hissing noise and some of the other subspecies are sexually dimorphic, like most wallaroos. Subspecies There are four subspecies: *the eastern wallaroo (''O. r. robustus'') – found in eastern Australia; males of this subspecies have dark grey fur, almost resembling the black wallaroo (''Osphranter bernardus''). Females are lighter, being almost sandy in colour. *the euro or western wall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Treueriana
''Grevillea treueriana'', also known as Mount Finke grevillea or scarlet grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Mount Finke in South Australia. It is a shrub with pinnatisect leaves with 3 to 7 lobes, the end lobes linear and sharply pointed, and bright scarlet flowers on one side of the floral rachis. Description ''Grevillea treueriana'' is shrub that typically grows up to high and wide and has softly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are pinnatisect, long with 3 to 7 lobes, the end lobes linear, long, wide and sharply pointed. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, enclosing most of the lower surface apart from the mid-vein. The flowers are arranged along one side of a rachis long with about 20 to 35 bright scarlet flowers, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from June to October and the fruit is a softly-hairy follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea treueriana'' was first formally described in 1875 by Ferdinand von Mueller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Youngiana
''Eucalyptus youngiana'', commonly known as large-fruited mallee, Ooldea mallee and yarldarlba, is a species of mallee, less commonly a tree, that in native to arid and semi-arid areas of southern Western Australia and South Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on some or all of the trunk, smooth bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, red, pink or bright yellow flowers and short, broad, conical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus youngiana'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of , less commonly a tree to , and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, flaky, dark grey-brown bark on part or all of the trunk and smooth, pinkish-grey to creamy bark above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have greyish green, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide. The adult leaves are the same shade of dull bluish green on both sides, lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Aneura
''Acacia aneura'', commonly known as mulga or true mulga, is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas of Australia. It is the dominant tree in the habitat to which it gives its name ( mulga) that occurs across much of inland Australia. Specific regions have been designated the Western Australian mulga shrublands in Western Australia and Mulga Lands in Queensland. Description Mulga trees are highly variable, in form, in height, and in shape of phyllodes and seed pods. They can form dense forests up to high, or small, almost heath-like low shrubs spread well apart. Most commonly, mulgas are tall shrubs. Because the mulga is so variable, its taxonomy has been studied extensively, and although ''A. aneura'' is likely to be split into several species eventually, there is as yet no consensus on how or even if this should be done. Although generally small in size, mulgas are long-lived, a typical life span for a tree undisturbed by fire is of the order of 200 to 300 yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
