A Bibliography of the Marine Invertebrates of Queensland
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F�fi:R. �� �- UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND PAPERS DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY VOLUME I. 1953 Nos. 2 and 3 2. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE MARINE INVERTEBRATES OF QUEENSLAND BY W. DALL, B.Sc., and W. STEPHENSON, Ph.D. Department of Zoology, University of Queensland 3. QUEENSLAND FAUNISTIC RECORDS Part III.-ECHINOD ERMATA ( excluding Crinoidea) BY R. ENDEAN, M.Sc. Department of Zoology, University of Queensland FRY. Price: Five Shillings QL 1 • .Ul v.1 THE .UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND PRESS N0,2 BRISBANE l 8th APRIL, 1953'--....__-- c1<L I .. u7 DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY Volume I 1953 Number 2 A Bibliography of the Marine Invertebrates of Queensland By W. DALL, B.Sc., and W. STEPHENSON, Ph.D. Department of Zoology, University of Queensland. THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND PRESS BRISBANE 8th APRIL, 1953 Registered at the General Post O ffice, Brisbane,' for transmission by Post as a Book. Wholly set up and printed in Australia by WATSON, FERGUSON AN D COMPANY Brisbane, Q. 1953 CONTENTS Page I Introduction 21 II Scope 21 III Historical Review 22 IV Present State of Faunistic Knowledge 23 PROTOZOA 23-2 PORIFERA 21 COELENTERATA •• 224- PLATYHELMINTHES 28 ACANTHOCEPHALA 28 NEMERTEA 28 NEMATODA 28 CHAETOGNATHA 29 ANNELIDA 29 ECHIUROIDEA AND SIPUNCULOIDEA 29 POLYZOA 30 BRACHIOPODA 30 CRUSTACEA 31-3 INSECTA AND ARACHNIDA 35 PYCNOGONIDA 35 MOLLUSCA 35-35 ECHINODERMATA 44-4 CHORDATA ACRANIA 47 GENERAL AND ECOLOGICAL 47-4 MANUSCRIPT AND NEAR MANUSCRIPT WORK 48-4 A Bibliography of the Marine Invertebrates of Queensland By W. DALL, B.Sc., and W. STEPHENSON, Ph.D. Department of_ Zoology, University of Queensland I. INTRODUQTION. British marine biologists have found the " Plymouth Marine Fauna"* and the "Marine Fauna of the Isle of Man "t invaluable as guides to the literature and as a synopsis of the faunistic components of their areas. One might hope that a " Queensland Marine Fauna " of similar nature, but necessarily of vaster dimensions, may be produced eventually. The compiling of a full bibliography of existing faunistic records is an essential preliminary. The compilation began in 1950 and the usual sources were searched, viz., Zoological Records, Biological Abstracts, and also most of the prominent Australian, British and American journals. In every case where literature was available within Queensland, papers were sighted, and brief comments on the scope of the papers are included with these references. Where there is more than one publication during a year by an author, strict chronological order of publication is followed where known (indicated by a, b, c, etc.), but in some cases the sequence is arbitrary owing to the extreme difficulty in determining exact dates. In some .::ases references could not be consulted directly or by proxy, and are probably not available in Australia. The source of the reference is then given in this form:-" fide Zoo!. Ree.". It was suspected and later proved, that many references with a Queensland context had not been revealed in this search. In an attempt to fill most of the gaps the assistance of various.Australian workers was canvassed, and many additional references have been incorporated as a result of their invaluable help. It is suspected that further references have still been overlooked, and it is hoped that omissions will be drawn to the attention of the authors, and published together with accrued additions at a later date. Recent JJa.pers not received in the Department of Zoology by 1st November, 1952, have not been included. The assistance of the following ls 5mt.,fully acknowledged both here and by incorporating their initials before the comments following the appropria1.o references:- Mr. T. Iredale, Mr. A. Musgrave, Mr. F. A. McNeill and Miss E. Pope (all of the Australian Museu,=) :-1\![r. F. E. Allen, Dr. M. Blackburn, Miss B. Dew, Miss P. Kott, and Mr. E. J. Ferguson-Wood_ (all _ of the C.S.i.n 0. Fisheries Division); Mr. A. C. Collins (9 McDonald Avenue, Newtown, Geelong, V1ctona); Dr.. M. Glaes;;...,r (University of Adelaide); Mr. K. Salter (Umvers1ty of Sydney); and_ Mr. F. S. Colliver and Dr. D. H1H (Dt,p,irtment of Geology, University of Queensland). In addition, assistance has been received from w1thm _the Zr..0]ogy Department from Mr. A. Perkins (Insecta), Miss P. Pennycmk (Hydrmda), Mrs. Parnell (Ponfera), ana 1J[ r. R. Endean. II. SCOPE. The " marine environment " here includes the upper littoral, brackish water, and coastal salt-pa" habitats. " Queensland " includes all areas within 100 nautical miles of the mainland, incorporates the Great. Barrier Reef (with Murray Island and its neighbours), most of the Torres Straits islands, and the ·New South Wales coast south to the Clarence River. The few faunistic records from the Gulf of Carpentaria are also included. It was intended that only references which actuaJly record species from Queensland should be included. A few of the references received from collaborators have been excluded oµ these grounds. .Some of the earlier literature predates the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859, and this literature is included if there are reasonably strong indications that the areas collected now fall within the defined bounds. The scope is restricted to the invertebrates, with Tunicata, Enteropneusta, etc., included for the· sake of convenience. Vertebrates are excluded because they are largely covered by Whitley and McCulloch's "A List of the Fishes Recorded fro·m Queensland Waters."+ In addition, it i,s understood that Mr. T." C. Marshall's comprehensive study of the marine fishes of Queensland is nearing completion. Each major animal grouping is separately listed, and within each group the references are arranged alphabetically. A separate group (" General and Ecological ") covers topics such as biogeography and zonation, and a further group (" Manuscript and. near Manuscript work '_') incorporates material on the point of publication or alternatively, ho.used and available. for consultat10n m. a rnput'.1-ble library. Apart from this last category, if a publication deals with several ammal groupmgs, it 1s listed m .each of the appropriate sections, The sections and number of references in each are as follows:- • Prot.ozoa (40); Porifera (24); Coelenterata (125); Platyhelminthes (19); Acanthocephala (4); Nemertea (2); Nematoda (7); Chaetognatha (4); Annelida (25); Echiuroidea and Sipunculoi?ea (4); Polyzoa (38); Brachiopoda (5); Crustacea (164); Insecta and Arachmda (20); Pycnogomda (7); Mollusca (440); Echinodermata (89); Chordata Acrama (15); General and Ecological (44); Manuscript and nea,r Manuscript Work (39). •" Plymouth Marine Fauna" 2nd Ed. (1931), Svo., 372 pp . Pub. by Mar. Biol. Assoc. t" Marine Fauna of the Isle of Man" (1937), Svo., 293 pp., Liverpool. t (1925), Mem. Qd. Mus.. Vol. VIII, pp. 25-182. 22 W. DALL, B.Sc., and W. STEPHENSON, Ph.D. III. HISTORICAL REVIEW, The first marine biologist to ·visit Queensland was Solander, aboard H.M.S. "Endeavour" in 1770. In spite of a fair amount of material collected there is only one Queensland shell recorded in the literature (see Museum Calonnianum). Cook's journal, which has been issued more or less verbatim by several publishers*, contains a narrative of the voyage along the coast. Some marine animals (mostly edible !} are described sufficiently to be recognisable, but these can scarcely be called faunistic records. Much the same can be said of Flinders' (1814)t account of his surveying voyage. There are botanical appendices by the naturalists aboard but none are zoological, though a number of marine observations are scattered through. the text. The first major reported collections were those of Hombron and Jacquinot abroad the "Astrolabe" and "Zelt�e" in 1840, followed by Jukes, MacGillivray and Ince aboard H.M.S. "Fly" in 1843-5. The "Fly" surveyed the coast from the Bunker Group to Darnley Island and this work was continued in 1847-9 by H.M.S. " Rattlesnake." MacGillivray gave an account of the voyage, with many illustrations by T. H. Huxley, then junior surgeon. Unfortunately the collections of the "Endeavour," " Fly" and " Rattlesnake" were dispersed and MacGillivray's field notes were lost. Many of the shells fell into the hant[s of Hugh Cuming, who also obtained material from Moreton Bay via Frederick Strange. Cuming's collections of molluscs ·were reported upon extensively, and molluscan references aimost completely dominate tJ::e early literature. During the 1850's there were spasmodic collections by S. Stutchbury, Commodore Loring, and G. F. Angus, and again• molluscs dominated. The next intensive work, however, was by Frau Amalie Dietrich, who visited localities· between Brisbane and Torre.s Straits in 1868. Her collections embraced many phyla and were sent to the Godeffroy Museum, Hamburg, and localities are recorded in the sales catalogues of that institute. Three years later (1871), J. Brazier accompanied an expedition to the Northumberland Group, and publis):ied several papers on the mollusca on his return. H.M.S. "Challenger" visited Cape York (Stations 185-7) in 1874 and collections comprised 800 species from a wiae range of phyla. The area was not intensively collected and it is unfortunate that the " Challenger" did not collect from the Great Barrier Reef, thereby setting a precedent which has been followed by several later expeditions, including the " Dana" and " Galathea" of recent years. In 1875, the "Chevert" expedition, of Australian origin. o=v10red the Percy Group and Torres Straits. The results were mostly published in the Proceedin(l's 0£ th e Lmnean Society of New South Wales, with Brazier, Haswell, Tenison-Woods, MacCleav o.nd Alleyne as the mam contnbutors. In 1875, S.M.S. "Gazelle" rJ,d limited dredging in Moreton Bay, and the next intensive work was that of H.M.S. "Alert," whi,i. worked from Port Curtis northwards in 1881. The results were published by the British Museu,,.,, ':nd the Linnean Society of New South Wales, and some have appeared after a delay of 50 years.