Symposium: 50 years of ABRS

Towards an updated number of living species in Australia and the World.

Tina A.R. Gopalan; Matthew M. Lockett; Jaever M. Santos; Annabel Wheeler; Haylee Crawford-Weaver (Australian Biological Resources Study). A national stocktake of our native species is vital to ensure we can protect and manage our unique biodiversity. Here, we catalogue an updated version of the ‘Number of living species in Australia and the World’. The currently […]

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What has the ABRS done for fish trematodes lately? (Plenty).

Thomas H. Cribb (The University of Queensland and Queensland Museum); Scott C. Cutmore (Queensland Museum); Storm B. Martin (Murdoch University); Terrence L. Miller (Queensland Museum); Nicholas Q.-X. Wee (Queensland Museum); Rodney A. Bray (Natural History Museum, London). Australia’s 5,750 fish species harbour many groups of parasites which, together, certainly far exceed the richness of their hosts.

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Calibrating biogeographical expectations for richness of trematode flatworms parasitic in coral reef fishes.

Storm B. Martin (Murdoch University); Scott C. Cutmore (Queensland Museum); Thomas H. Cribb (The University of Queensland). The Trematoda are obligate endoparasitic flatworms at their richest and most diverse in marine teleost fishes. Biogeographic understanding for fish trematodes remains rudimentary and is perhaps the greatest impediment to furthering evolutionary insight and estimating the true richness of

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ANNiKEY: a taxonomic information system for Annelida.

Christopher J Glasby (Australian Museum & Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory); Olga Biriukova (Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory); Patrick Martin (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences); Robin Wilson (Museum Victoria). Annelida are ubiquitous metazoans found in most terrestrial and aquatic (freshwater and marine) habitats on Earth. The phylum has recently undergone significant restructuring with the inclusion

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What do we know about Australian polychaete biodiversity and what we do not.

Elena Kupriyanova (Australian Museum); Pat Hutchings (Australian Museum); Christopher Glasby (Australian Museum and Museum and Art Gallery of  the Northern Territory), Anna Murray (Australian Museum); Robin Wilson (Museums Victoria). Our knowledge of polychaete (marine Annelida) diversity in Australia has been improving over the years as a result of new region exploration, taxonomic revisions, and cryptic

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More peas please? Progress towards completion of Fabaceae for the Flora of Australia

Russell L. Barrett (Botanic Gardens of Sydney); James A.R. Clugston (Botanic Gardens of Sydney); Lyn G. Cook (University of Queensland); Mike D. Crisp (University of Queensland); Peter C. Jobson (Botanic Gardens of Sydney); Brendan J. Lepschi (Australian National Herbarium); Matthew A.M. Renner (Botanic Gardens of Sydney); Peter H. Weston (Botanic Gardens of Sydney). The legume family

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ABRS – 50 years of achievements for taxonomy

Haylee Crawford-Weaver, Tina Gopalan, Jaever Santos (Australian Biological Resources Study). The Australian Biological Resources Study was established in December 1973 to stimulate the study of taxonomy of Australia’s “biological resources” and to provide research grant funding and support for taxonomy. ABRS has awarded over $89 million (unadjusted dollar value) for research on taxonomy and systematics

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