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Australasia herpetological Resources - English
URL: http://www.vaherper.com/pages/australia.htm

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Virginia herper's Home page - a guide to resources on the Internet dealing with reptiles and amphibians around the world. Includes references, exotic specialty veterinarians, research sites, zoos, zoological parks, breeders, suppliers and animal retailers. Covering a wide variety of snakes, lizards, frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, tuataras, and other exotic reptiles and amphibians. Included in this site are references to boas, pythons, rattlesnakes, vipers, pit vipers, cobras, kraits, lungless salamanders, tadpoles, toads, bufonids, ranids, colubrids, racers, whipsnakes, and more.

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Collembola - English
URL: http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/hexapoda/collemb

Classification from Greenslade (1991), in Insects of Australia. Part of Tree of Life.

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Amphibian Declines in Australia - English
URL: http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/zoology/herp/decline/decl.html

Information on some of Australian frog species known or suspected to be declining and the research that is being carried out on these species. The site also features a bibliography of published and unpublished material on frog declines in Australia.

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Victorian Frog Group - English
URL: http://www.frogs.org.au/

Provide for the needs of all those interested in Australian frogs. Aims are to facilitate education and conservation through encouraging a close contact with nature. Whatever your interest in frogs, you'll find it at the Victorian Frog Group.

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Marine Crustaceans of Southern Australia - English
URL: http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/crust/page1a.html

Photos.

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Barnacles of Southern Australia - English
URL: http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/crust/barngall.html

To the uninitiated barnacles might seem to be molluscs, like limpets which they superficially resemble and with whom some share space. This is because the chalky plates which enclose the crustacean body are vaguely limpet-shaped. Inside the “shell” however is a segmented body with six pairs of segmented legs used for filter-feeding from the water. Some odd parasitic crustaceans share a similar larval stage, called a “cyprid”, with more familiar barnacles. All use the first antennae as a for m of attachment, the barnacles attach themselves upside down on a rock with their feet in the water.

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Koalas - endangered mammals of Australia - German, English
URL: http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-ahrweima/welcome.html

Facts, links, a list of books and a list of organisations caring for the koala.

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The koala page - English
URL: http://www.onthenet.com.au/~jbergh/koala/Welcome.html

Collection of facts and pictures of koalas and other Australian animals. Facts, diseases, anatomy, current research.

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Marine Services & Training - English
URL: http://www.mast.be/

Part of the Dept. of Transport, Australia, conducting investigations into marine related accidents and incidents. Reports regarding various incidents available on-line.

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Animal Rights and Australian Politics - English
URL: http://student.uq.edu.au/~s800728/

Animal rights issues in Australian society and how they can be addressed through politics and legislation.

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Melaleuca quinquenervia - English
URL: http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/melqui/

Melaleuca's native range is along the coast of eastern Australia from Sydney northward. It is native also in New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, and Irian Jaya

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Mockmickey Arts - English
URL: http://mockmickey.com/

Fine furniture and rare Australian timbers.

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Australians Abroad - English
URL: http://www.australiansabroad.com/

Centralised resource for Australians living overseas. All the work for Australians Abroad is on a volunteer and unpaid basis.

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Casuarina spp. - English
URL: http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/casspp/

Australian pine was introduced to the United States near the turn of the century.

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Craterocephalus centralis Finke hardyhead - English
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/fish/dfc/australi/fish/cratcent.html

Summary of this Central Australian species distribution, abundance, habitat, ecology, reproduction, threats, conservation status-actions-recommendations, taxonomy, size, and major references.

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Printacall: Products for the hearing impaired - English
URL: http://www.printacall.com.au/

Australia's leading organisation for products for hearing impaired and deaf people. Enabling people with a hearing disability to communicate better with others.

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Wombats - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/marsupialia.vombatidae.html

This family of two Recent genera and three species is known from eastern and southern Australia, Tasmania, and islands of Bass Strait. The sequence of genera presented here follows that of Kirsch and Calaby (1977). The name Phascolomyidae has sometimes been used for this family.

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Short-nosed Echidna - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/monotremata.tachyglossidae.tachyglossus.ht

The single species, T. aculeatus, inhabits most of mainland Australia, many nearby islands, Tasmania, and central and southern New Guinea (Collins 1973; Griffiths 1968, 1978). A number of apparently well-marked subspecies have been described, based primarily on characters of the pelage and spines. The subspecies T. a. setosus of Tasmania is often considered a distinct species.

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Tachyglossus aculeatus (Short-Nosed Echidna): Narrative - Russian
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Tachyglossus/t._aculeatus.html

Australian: Tachyglossus aculeatus inhabits most of Australia and many nearby islands including Tasmania and New Guinea.

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Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) - English
URL: http://brainmuseum.org/specimens/monotremata/echidna/

The spiny anteater or echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), Suborder Prototheria, Order Monotremata, family Tachyglossidae, live in burrows in Australia and eastern New Guinea. Our specimens were obtained by Dr. Richard Lende in order to study the patterns of organization of their sensory and motor regions of cerebral neocortex.

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