Ophisternon candidum
(Mees 1962) Rosen and Greenwood 1976
| ORDER | SUB-ORDER | FAMILY |
|---|---|---|
| Synbranchiformes | Synbranchoidei | Synbranchidae |
Synonyms
Anomatophasma candidum Mees 1962
Placed in the genus Ophisternon by Rosen and Greenwood (1976)
Country
AustraliaTypes
Holotype ("Type" in Mees, 1962): WAM P4917-001 356mm TL. Paratype WAM P4918-001 314mm TL. This species is the type species by original designation and monotypy of the genus Anomatophasma.
Distribution
Type locality: Tantabiddi Well, near Yardie Creek Station, North West Cape, Western Australia (21o56’S, 113o58’E). Details of all other known locations are given in Moore et al (2018) and in the Table below. At nine locations this species has been seen at sites from which Milyeringa veritas has also been recorded. EPA (2012), Halse et al. (2014), Moore et al. (2018) and White et al. (2020) report an extension of the range to eastern Pilbara (see also Humphreys and Adams 1991, Adams and Humphreys 1993, Humphreys 1993 Knott 1993). White et al. (2020) used environmental DNA (eDNA) in boreholes in the eastern part of the range in Pilbara to search for locations containing O. candidum. They found that it was still present in bores BC186, JW023 and JW024 (as reported by Moore et al. (2018)), but also in three further bores: 25, RR1 and MB17MEH0015 and, suprisingly, in two surface water bodies. Ophisternon candidum is now know from three geographically isolated areas: Cape Range (East and West), Barrow Island and Pilbara.
| Area | Site No. | Site name | Species | Latitude and longitude | References |
| CRW | C-26 | Tantabiddi Well | Oc |
21o56’S, 113o58’E |
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| CRW | C-24 | Milyering Well | Oc, Mv | 22o01’S, 113o56’E | Mees (1962), Humphreys (1994), (1999) |
| CRE | C-228 | Ned's Well | Oc | 21o53’S, 114o06’E | |
| CRE | C-23 | Dozer Cave | Oc, Mv | 21o58’S, 114o08’E | |
| CRW | C-274 | Pilgramunna Well | Oc, Mv | 22o12’S, 113o52’E | |
| CRE | C-27 | Kubura Well cave | Oc, Mv | 21o56’S, 114o08’E | Humphreys and Adams (1991) |
| CRW | None | Just south of Yardie Creek | Oc | 22o21’S, 113o48’E | |
| CRE | C-361 | Mowbowra Well | Oc, Mv | 22o00’S, 114o07’E | Humphreys and Adams (1991) |
| CRW | C-25 | Kudumurra Well | Oc, Mv | 21o55’S, 113o59’E | |
| CRW | C-414 | Wobiri Rock Hole | Oc, Mv | 21o50’S, 114o05’E | |
| CRE | C-495 | New Mowbowra Well | Oc, Mv | 22o00’S, 114o07’E | |
| CRW | None | Tidal Cave | Oc | 21o50’S, 114o06’E | |
| Pilbara | None | Exploration bore BC186-155 | Oc | 21o49’S, 116o19’E | Moore (2018), Moore et al. (2018) |
| Pilbara | None | Borehole JW023 | Oc | 21o47’S, 116o17’E | Moore (2018), Moore et al. (2018) |
| Pilbara | None | Borehole JW024 | Oc | 21o47’S, 116o18’E | Moore (2018), Moore et al. (2018) |
| Barrow Island | None | Anode Well T2 | Oc | 20o46’S, 115o25’E | Moore (2018), Moore et al. (2018) |
| Barrow Island | None | Anode Well L15 | Oc | 20o48’S, 115o23’E | Moore (2018), Moore et al. (2018) |
| Barrow Islamd | None | Seismic site E1918 | Oc | 20o41'S, 115o27'E | Moore (2018), Moore et al. (2018) |
| CRW | C-215 | Unnamed | Oc, Mv | 22o2'S 113056' E | Moore (2018), Moore et al. (2018) |
| Pilbara | 25 | Unnamed | Oc | Not given | White et al. (2020) |
| Pilbara | RR1 | Unnamed | Oc | Not given | White et al. (2020) |
| Pilbara | MB17MEH0015 | Unnamed | Oc | Not given | White et al. (2020) |
| Pilbara | Surface water | Unnamed | Oc | Not given | White et al. (2020) |
| Pilbara | Surface water | Unnamed | Oc | Not given | White et al. (2020) |
The distribution of Ophisternon candidum. Oc Ophisternon candidum, Mv Milyeringa veritas
Various stygobitic Crustacea are found in Cape Range, eastern Pilbara and Barrow Island and their biogeography can help to inform us about the distribution and ages of the fish taxa there. The following sources are useful in this regard:
Humphreys (1993) Stygofauna and a Tethyan connection
Yager and Humphreys (1996) Lasionectes exleyi (Crustacea: Remipedia)
Page et al. (2008) Stygiocaris (Decapoda: Atyidae)
Humphreys (2017) Australasian subterranean biogeography - covers all groups in the groundwaters
Page et al. (2018) Halosbaena (Peracarida: Thermosbaenacea)
Matthews et al. (2019) Parabathnellidae diversity in Pilbara
Habitat
Details of Kubura Well are provided by Cawthorn (1963). Potential food supply for the fishes is provided by both stygobitic crustaceans (including representatives of the Thermosbaenacea, Atyidea, and Remipedia) and terrestrial insects and Crustacea. Humphreys and Feinberg (1995) made a detailed examination of the gut contents of some specimens. The fish is carnivorous and eats both other cave fauna (Thermosbenacea, Halosbaena tuski and Atyidae, Stygiocaris sp.) and terrestrial Isopoda, Odonata and Diptera. They clearly obtain food both at the water surface and within the cave. Eberhard et al. (2005) provide details of the other stygobitic fauna of the Pilbara region, which will provide much of the food supply for the fishes, and the stygobitic fauna of Barrow Island is provided by Humphreys et al. (2013). The Cape Range karst is the 4th most biodiverse subterranean habitat in Australia with 83 obligate subterranean species (41 terrestrial and 42 aquatic). The Barrow Island Karst is the 5th most diverse with 74 obligate species (18 terrestrial and 56 aquatic) (Ebergard and Haworth 2021).
Systematics
Moore (2018) and Moore et al. (2018) report that O. candidum has recently been found in the east of the Pilbara region. This means that O. candidum is now known from the east and west of Cape Range, eastern Pilbara and Barrow Island. Milyeringa is also found in east and west Cape Range and Barrow Island but as two separate species, M veritas (CR) and M. justitia (BI), [it is not yet known from eastern Pilbara]. Given this evolutionary split within Milyeringa Morgan et al. (2014) suggest that the Ophisternon taxon on Barrow Island might be a seperate endemic species. However, Moore et al. (2018) showed conclusively, using both morphological and molecular evidence, that all at three areas have the same species.
Much recent work by W.F. Humphreys and others has shed some light on the evolution of the Cape Range troglobites. The area appears to be Tethyan and all but one of its stygofauna is of Tethyan origin.
Conservation Status
(Wager, R. 1996. Ophisternon candidum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T15386A4555042.en. Downloaded on 06 July 2017).I (IUCN 1988, 1990), K (IUCN 1993). Michaelis (1985) classes this species as vulnerable. The Cape Range area is arid and a centre for developments. The water needs of the human population are such that “the water table is declining and becoming more saline" (Humphreys and Adams 1991). The most recent sightings of this animal are in an area where building development is planned.
The conservation of karst sites, and their fauna, in western Autralia is considered in a very detailed report by the Environmental Protection Authority (2012).
Museum Holdings
As above plus: AMNH 32404 259mm TL (Rosen and Greenwood 1976:51), WAM P5813-001 309mm TL, WAM P7716-001 268mm SL (Humphreys and Feinberg 1995), WAM P33136-001 183mm TL, WAM P34329-001 298mm SL, WAM P34487-001 90mm TL, WAM P34487-001 364mm SL, WAM P34615-001 63mm TL, WAM P34657 385mm TL, WAM P34817-001 60mm TL (Moore 2018, Moore et al. 2018).
Internet Resources
Australian Government conservation assessment
Ningaloo Coast world heritage nimination with details of the subterranean fauna
Mitochondrial genome (White et al. 2020, Tian et al. 2021)
Mitochondrial CYTB (1) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial CYTB (2) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial CYTB (3) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial CYTB (4) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial CYTB (5) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial CYTB (6) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial COI (1) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial COI (2) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial COI (3) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial COI (4) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial COI (5) (Moore et al. 2018)
Mitochondrial COI (6) (Moore et al. 2018)
Key References
- Mees, G.F. (1962)
- Cawthorn, P. (1963)
- Richards, A. M. (1963)
- Rosen, D. E. and Greenwood, P. H. (1976)
- Michaelis, F. (1985)
- Pollard, D. A., Ingram, B. A., Harris, J. H. and Reynolds, L. F. (1990)
- Humphreys, W. F. and Adams, M. (1991)
- Allen, G.R. (1992)
- Adams, M. and Humphreys, W.F. (1993)
- Knott, B. (1993)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1993)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1993)
- Humphreys, W.F. (1994)
- Humphreys, W. F. and Feinberg, M. N. (1995)
- Hamilton-Smith, E., Kiernan, K. and Spate, A. (1996)
- Yager, J. and Humphreys, W. F. (1996)
- Eberhard, S. and Hamilton-Smith, E. (1996)
- Humphreys, W.F. (1997)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1999)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1999)
- Humphreys, W.F., Poole, A., Eberhard, S.M. and Warren, D. (1999)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2000)
- Romero, A. and Vanselow, P.B.S. (2000)
- Romero, A. and Vanselow, P.B.S. (2000)
- Unmack, P.J. (2001)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2001)
- Humphreys, WF (2001)
- Humphreys, W.R. (2001)
- Wilson, R.S. and Humphreys, W.F. (2001)
- Jaume, D., Boxshall, G.A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2001)
- Moore, B.P., Humphreys, W.F., Decu, V. and Juberthie, C. (2001)
- Boulton, A.J., Humphreys, W,F. and Eberhard, S.M. (2003)
- Hancock, P.J., Boulton, A.J. and Humphreys, W.F. (2005)
- Eberhard, S.M., Halse, S.A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2005)
- Humphreys, W.F., Shiao, J.-C., Iizuka, Y. and Tzeng, W.-N. (2006)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2006)
- Furter, E. (2007)
- Finston, T.L., Johnson, M.S., Humphreys, W.F., Eberhard, S.M. and Halse, S.A. (2007)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2008)
- Humphreys, W.F., Watts, C.H.S., Cooper, S.J.B. and Leijs, R. (2009)
- Collins, L.B. and Stevens, A. (2010)
- Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (2010)
- Humphreys, W.F (2012)
- Abrams, K. M., Guzik, M.T., Cooper, S.J.B., Humphreys, W.F., King, R.A., Cho J.L. and Austin, A.D. (2012)
- Environmental Protection Authority (2012)
- Humphreys, W., Tetu, S., Elbourne, L., Gillings, M., Seymour, J., Mitchell, J. and Paulsen, I. (2012)
- Larson, H.K., Foster, R., Humphreys, W.F. and Stevens, M. (2013)
- Unmack, P.J. (2013)
- Humphreys, G., Alexander, J., Harvey, M.S. and Humphreys, W.F. (2013)
- Morgan, D.L., Unmack, P.J., Beatty, S.J., Ebner, B.C., Allen, M.G., Keleher, J., Donaldson, J.A. and Murphy, J. (2014)
- Halse, S., Scanlon, M., Cocking, J., Barron, H., Richardson, J. and Eberhard, S. (2014)
- Bishop, R.E., Humphreys, W.F., Cukrov, N., Zic, V., Boxshall, G.A., Cukrov, M., Iliffe, T.M., Krsinic, F., Moore, W.S., Pohlman, J.W., and Sket, B. (2015)
- Humphreys, W. F. (2017)
- Moore, G.I. (2018)
- Moore, G.I., Humphreys, W.F. and Foster, R. (2018)
- Page, T.J., Hughes, J.M., Real, K.M., Stevens, M.I., King, R.A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2018)
- Halse, S. (2018)
- Page, T.J.,Stevens, M.I., Adams, M., Foster, R. Velasco-Castrillón, A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2018)
- Perina, G., Camacho, A.I., Huey, J., Horwitz, P., and Koenders, A. (2018)
- Perina, G., Camacho, A.I., Huey, J., Horwitz, P. and Koenders, A. (2019)
- Perina, G., Camacho, A., Huey, J., Horwitz, P. and Koenders, A. (2019)
- Matthews, E.F., Abrams, K.M., Cooper, S.J.B., Huey, J.A., Hillyer, M.J., Humphreys, W.F., Austin, A.D. and Guzik, M.T. (2019)
- Perina, G. (2019)
- Lintermans, M., Geyle, H.M., Beatty, S., Brown, C., Ebner, B.C., Freeman, R., Hammer, M.P., Humphreys, W.F., Kennard, M.J., Kern, P., Martin, K., Morgan, D.L., Raadik, T.A., Unmack, P.J., Wager, R., Woinarski, J.C.Z. and Garnett, S.T. (2020)
- White, N.E., Guzik, M.T., Austin, A.D., Moore, G.I. Humphreys, W.F., Alexander, J. and Bunce, M. (2020)
- Shelley, J.J., Swearer, S.E., Dempster, T., Adams, M., Le Feuvre, M.C., Hammer, M.P. and Unmack, P.J. (2020)
- Eberhard, S.M. and Howarth, F.G. (2021)
- Tian, H., Hu, Q., Lu, H. and Li, Z. (2021)
- Saccò, M., Guzik, M.T., van der Heyde, M., Nevill, P., Cooper, S.J.B., Austin, A.D., Coates, P.J. and Allentoft, M.E. (2022)
- Saccò, M., Blyth, A.J., Douglas, G., Humphreys, W.F., Hose, G.C., Davis, J., Guzik, M.T., Martínez, A., Eberhard, S.M. and Halse, S.A. (2022)
- Webb, J.A., White, S.Q. and Smith, G.K. (2023)
- White, S.Q., Brooks, D. and Webb, J.A. (2023)
- van der Heyde, M., White, N.E., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D., Stevens, N., Jones, M. and Guzik, M.T. (2023)
- van der Heyde, M., Alexander, J., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D., Stevens, N., Jones, M. and Guzik, M.T. (2023)
| Mees, G.F. | Journal Article | 1962 | The subterranean freshwater fauna of Yardie Creek Station, North West Cape, Western Australia |
| Cawthorn, P. | Journal Article | 1963 | Discovery of subterranean freshwater fauna on the eastern side of North West Cape |
| Richards, A. M. | Journal Article | 1963 | The subterranean freshwater fauna of North West Cape, Western Australia |
| Rosen, D. E. and Greenwood, P. H. | Journal Article | 1976 | A fourth neotropical species of synbranchid eel and the phylogeny and systematics of synbranchiform fishes |
| Michaelis, F. | Journal Article | 1985 | Threatened fish. A report on the threatened fish of inland waters of Austalia |
| Pollard, D. A., Ingram, B. A., Harris, J. H. and Reynolds, L. F. | Journal Article | 1990 | Threatened fishes in Australia - an overview |
| Humphreys, W. F. and Adams, M. | Journal Article | 1991 | The subterranean aquatic fauna of the North West Cape peninsula, Western Australia |
| Allen, G.R. | Book | 1992 | Inland Fishes of Western Australia |
| Adams, M. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 1993 | Patterns of genetic diversity within selected subterranean fauna of the Cape Range penninsula, Western Australia: Systematic and biogeographic implications |
| Knott, B. | Journal Article | 1993 | Stygofauna of the Cape Range penninsula, Western Australia: Tethyan relicts |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Book | 1993 | The biogeography of Cape Range, Western Australia |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Journal Article | 1993 | The significance of the subterranean fauna in biogeographical reconstruction: Examples from Cape Range Peninsula, Western Australia |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 1994 | The subterranean fauna of the Cape Range coastal plane, Northwestern Australia |
| Humphreys, W. F. and Feinberg, M. N. | Journal Article | 1995 | Food of the blind cave fishes of Northwestern Australia |
| Hamilton-Smith, E., Kiernan, K. and Spate, A. | Journal Article | 1996 | Karst management considerations for the Cape Range karst province, Western Australia |
| Yager, J. and Humphreys, W. F. | Journal Article | 1996 | Lasionectes exleyi sp. nov. the first Remipede crustacean recorded from Australia and the Indian Ocean, with a key to the world species |
| Eberhard, S. and Hamilton-Smith, E. | Journal Article | 1996 | Conservation of cave fauna in Australia |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Book Section | 1997 | Protection of arid karstlands on the Cape Range Penninsula, Western Australia |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Journal Article | 1999 | Physico-chemical profile and energy fixation in Bundera Sinkhole, an anchialine remiped habitat in north-western Australia |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Journal Article | 1999 | The distribution of Australian cave fishes |
| Humphreys, W.F., Poole, A., Eberhard, S.M. and Warren, D. | Journal Article | 1999 | Effects of research diving on the physico-chemical profile of Bundera Sinkhole, an anchialine remiped habitat at Cape Range, Western Australia |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Book Section | 2000 | The hypogean fauna of the Cape Range Peninsula and Barrow Island, northwestern Australia |
| Romero, A. and Vanselow, P.B.S. | Journal Article | 2000 | Threatened fishes of the world: Ophisternon candidum (Mees, 1962) Synbranchidae |
| Romero, A. and Vanselow, P.B.S. | Journal Article | 2000 | Threatened fishes of the world: Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945 (Eleotridae) |
| Unmack, P.J. | Journal Article | 2001 | Biogeography of Australian freshwater fishes |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2001 | Milyeringa veritas (Eleotridae), a remarkably versatile cave fish from the arid tropics of northwestern Australia |
| Humphreys, WF | Journal Article | 2001 | The subterranean fauna of Barrow island, northwestern Australia, and its environment |
| Humphreys, W.R. | Journal Article | 2001 | Groundwater calcrete aquifers in the Australian arid zone: the context to an unfolding plethora of stygal biodiversity |
| Wilson, R.S. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2001 | Prionospio thalajani sp. nov. (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from an anchialine cave, Cape range, north-western Australia |
| Jaume, D., Boxshall, G.A. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2001 | New stygobiont copepods (Calanoida; Misophrioida) from Bundera sinkhole, an anchialine cenote on north-western Australia |
| Moore, B.P., Humphreys, W.F., Decu, V. and Juberthie, C. | Book Section | 2001 | Australie |
| Boulton, A.J., Humphreys, W,F. and Eberhard, S.M. | Journal Article | 2003 | Imperilled subsurface waters in Ausralia: biodiversity, threatening processes and conservation |
| Hancock, P.J., Boulton, A.J. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2005 | Aquifers and hyporheic zones: Towards an ecological understanding of groundwater. |
| Eberhard, S.M., Halse, S.A. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2005 | Stygofauna in the Pilbara region, north-west Western Australia: a review |
| Humphreys, W.F., Shiao, J.-C., Iizuka, Y. and Tzeng, W.-N. | Journal Article | 2006 | Can otolith microchemistry reveal whether the blind cave gudgeon, Milyeringa veritas (Eleotridae), is diadromous within a subterranean estuary? |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2006 | Aquifers: the ultimate groundwater-dependent ecosystems |
| Furter, E. | Journal Article | 2007 | Underground life : environmental assessments just became more complicated |
| Finston, T.L., Johnson, M.S., Humphreys, W.F., Eberhard, S.M. and Halse, S.A. | Journal Article | 2007 | Cryptic speciation in two widespread subterranean amphipod genera reflects historical drainage patterns in an ancient landscape |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2008 | Rising from down under: developments in subterranean biodiversity in Australia from a groundwater fauna perspective |
| Humphreys, W.F., Watts, C.H.S., Cooper, S.J.B. and Leijs, R. | Journal Article | 2009 | Groundwater estuaries of salt lakes: buried pools of endemic biodiversity on the western plateau, Australia |
| Collins, L.B. and Stevens, A. | Report | 2010 | Assessment of coastal groundwater and linkages with Ningaloo Reef – final report February 2010 |
| Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts | Report | 2010 | Ningaloo Coast World Heritage nomination |
| Humphreys, W.F | Book Section | 2012 | Diversity patterns in Australia |
| Abrams, K. M., Guzik, M.T., Cooper, S.J.B., Humphreys, W.F., King, R.A., Cho J.L. and Austin, A.D. | Journal Article | 2012 | What lies beneath: molecular phylogenetics and ancestral state reconstruction of the ancient subterranean Australian Parabathynellidae (Syncarida, Crustacea) |
| Environmental Protection Authority | Report | 2012 | A review of subterranean fauna assessment in Western Australia. Discussion Paper. February 2012 |
| Humphreys, W., Tetu, S., Elbourne, L., Gillings, M., Seymour, J., Mitchell, J. and Paulsen, I. | Journal Article | 2012 | Geochemical and microbial diversity of Bundera Sinkhole, an anchialine system in the eastern Indian Ocean |
| Larson, H.K., Foster, R., Humphreys, W.F. and Stevens, M. | Journal Article | 2013 | A new species of blind cave gudgeon Milyeringa (Pisces: Gobioidei, Eleotridaee) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a redescription of M. veritas Whitley |
| Unmack, P.J. | Journal Article | 2013 | Biogeography |
| Humphreys, G., Alexander, J., Harvey, M.S. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2013 | The subterranean fauna of Barrow Island, northwestern Australia: 10 years on |
| Morgan, D.L., Unmack, P.J., Beatty, S.J., Ebner, B.C., Allen, M.G., Keleher, J., Donaldson, J.A. and Murphy, J. | Journal Article | 2014 | An overview of the 'freshwater fishes' of Western Australia |
| Halse, S., Scanlon, M., Cocking, J., Barron, H., Richardson, J. and Eberhard, S. | Journal Article | 2014 | Pilbara stygofauna: deep groundwater of an arid landscape contains globally significant radiation of biodiversity |
| Bishop, R.E., Humphreys, W.F., Cukrov, N., Zic, V., Boxshall, G.A., Cukrov, M., Iliffe, T.M., Krsinic, F., Moore, W.S., Pohlman, J.W., and Sket, B. | Journal Article | 2015 | ‘Anchialine’ redefined as a subterranean estuary in a crevicular or cavernous geological setting |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Book Section | 2017 | Australasian subterranean biodiversity |
| Moore, G.I. | Journal Article | 2018 | New morphological data and live photographs of the rare subterranean blind cave eel Ophisternon candidum (Synbranchidae) from north‑western Australia |
| Moore, G.I., Humphreys, W.F. and Foster, R. | Journal Article | 2018 | New populations of the rare subterranean Blind Cave Eel Ophisternon candidum (Synbranchidae) reveal recent historical connections throughout northwestern Australia |
| Page, T.J., Hughes, J.M., Real, K.M., Stevens, M.I., King, R.A. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2018 | Allegory of a cave crustacean: systematic and biogeographic reality of Halosbaena (Peracarida: Thermosbaenacea) sought with molecular data at multiple scales |
| Halse, S. | Book Section | 2018 | Subterranean fauna of the arid zone |
| Page, T.J.,Stevens, M.I., Adams, M., Foster, R. Velasco-Castrillón, A. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2018 | Multiple molecular markers reinforce the systematic framework of unique Australian cave fishes (Milyeringa : Gobioidei) |
| Perina, G., Camacho, A.I., Huey, J., Horwitz, P., and Koenders, A. | Journal Article | 2018 | Understanding subterranean variability: the first genus of Bathynellidae (Bathynellacea, Crustacea) from Western Australia described through a morphological and multigene approach |
| Perina, G., Camacho, A.I., Huey, J., Horwitz, P. and Koenders, A. | Journal Article | 2019 | New Bathynellidae (Crustacea) taxa and their relationships in the Fortescue catchment aquifers of the Pilbara region, Western Australia, Systematics and Biodiversity |
| Perina, G., Camacho, A., Huey, J., Horwitz, P. and Koenders, A. | Journal Article | 2019 | The role of allopatric speciation and ancient origins of Bathynellidae (Crustacea) in the Pilbara (Western Australia): two new genera from the De Grey River catchment |
| Matthews, E.F., Abrams, K.M., Cooper, S.J.B., Huey, J.A., Hillyer, M.J., Humphreys, W.F., Austin, A.D. and Guzik, M.T. | Journal Article | 2019 | Scratching the surface of subterranean biodiversity: molecular analysis reveals a diverse and previously unknown fauna of Parabathynellidae (Crustacea: Bathynellacea) from the Pilbara, Western Australia |
| Perina, G. | Thesis | 2019 | Ancient origins of a diverse stygofaunal group: The Australian Bathynellidae (Crustacea) |
| Lintermans, M., Geyle, H.M., Beatty, S., Brown, C., Ebner, B.C., Freeman, R., Hammer, M.P., Humphreys, W.F., Kennard, M.J., Kern, P., Martin, K., Morgan, D.L., Raadik, T.A., Unmack, P.J., Wager, R., Woinarski, J.C.Z. and Garnett, S.T. | Journal Article | 2020 | Big trouble for little fish: identifying Australian freshwater fishes in imminent risk of extinction |
| White, N.E., Guzik, M.T., Austin, A.D., Moore, G.I. Humphreys, W.F., Alexander, J. and Bunce, M. | Journal Article | 2020 | Detection of rare Australian endemic blind cave eel (Ophisternon candidum) with environmental DNA: implications for threatened species management in subterranean environments |
| Shelley, J.J., Swearer, S.E., Dempster, T., Adams, M., Le Feuvre, M.C., Hammer, M.P. and Unmack, P.J. | Journal Article | 2020 | Plio-Pleistocene sea-level changes drive speciation of freshwater fishes in north-western Australia |
| Eberhard, S.M. and Howarth, F.G. | Journal Article | 2021 | Undara lava cave fauna in tropical Queensland with an annotated list of Australian subterranean biodiversity hotspots |
| Tian, H., Hu, Q., Lu, H. and Li, Z. | Journal Article | 2021 | The complete mitochondrial genome of one breeding strain of Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus, Zuiew 1793) using PacBio and Illumina sequencing technologies and phylogenetic analysis in synbranchiformes |
| Saccò, M., Guzik, M.T., van der Heyde, M., Nevill, P., Cooper, S.J.B., Austin, A.D., Coates, P.J. and Allentoft, M.E. | Journal Article | 2022 | eDNA in subterranean ecosystems: Applications, technical aspects, and future prospects |
| Saccò, M., Blyth, A.J., Douglas, G., Humphreys, W.F., Hose, G.C., Davis, J., Guzik, M.T., Martínez, A., Eberhard, S.M. and Halse, S.A. | Journal Article | 2022 | Stygofaunal diversity and ecological sustainability of coastal groundwater ecosystems in a changing climate: The Australian paradigm |
| Webb, J.A., White, S.Q. and Smith, G.K. | Book | 2023 | Australian caves and karst systems |
| White, S.Q., Brooks, D. and Webb, J.A. | Book Section | 2023 | Cape Range |
| van der Heyde, M., White, N.E., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D., Stevens, N., Jones, M. and Guzik, M.T. | Journal Article | 2023 | Taking eDNA underground: factors affecting eDNA detection of subterranean fauna in groundwater |
| van der Heyde, M., Alexander, J., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D., Stevens, N., Jones, M. and Guzik, M.T. | Journal Article | 2023 | Rapid detection of subterranean fauna from passive sampling of groundwater eDNA |