(2020). Obituary: Michael James Tyler AO, MSc, DSc, 1937–2020. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. Ahead of Print.

Morialta Conservation Park is a scenic protected area that contains important vegetation remnants of the Mount Lofty Ranges. Here we investigate the vegetation ecology, soils and plant diversity of the park. Using a stratified, quantitative survey of woody vegetation and topsoils throughout the park within forty-five 10 × 10 m plots, we identified ten distinct vegetation types, nine being native and

ABSTRACT A complete annotated checklist of all species of birds based on fossil material known as of 2019 from continental Australia is presented. Taxa range from Cretaceous to Holocene in age. It includes synonyms with full bibliographic details and specifics of the type material in all cases, such as specimen or locality data, source local fauna and geological age. Nomina based on fossil material

(2020). Index to the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol 134 to 143. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia: Vol. 144, No. 1, pp. 109-137.

The complete skeleton and muscular systems of the burrowing microhylid frog, Barygenys maculata, are described and are compared to that of the morphologically similar burrowing African frog, Hemisus marmoratus. Based on morphological similarities it is assumed that their burrowing methods are similar though no direct observations have been made on Barygenys in life. What little is known about other

The halictine bee genus Homalictus (Apoidea: Halictidae) is distributed broadly across south east Asia, Indonesia, Australia and the archipelagos of the Pacific. The group is well represented in the bee faunas of Australia and Papua New Guinea, but Homalictus is particularly important in the Pacific where it plays a keystone pollination role as the only endemic bee group in many islands. Understanding

The discovery and collection of a fragmentary skeleton found in cliffs of the early Miocene Mannum Formation near Blanchetown, on the River Murray in South Australia, are recounted, and the specimen identified as that of a rare squalodontid whale, on the basis of a near-complete mandible retaining two dentate, triangular posterior teeth.