| causes of morbidity and mortality of wild aquatic birds at billabong sanctuary, townsville, north queensland, australia. | infectious diseases are common causes of significant morbidity and mortality events of wild aquatic birds (wabs) worldwide. reports of australian events are infrequent. a 3-yr passive surveillance program investigating the common causes of morbidity and mortality of wabs was conducted at billabong sanctuary near townsville, north queensland, from april 2007 to march 2010. forty-two carcasses were obtained and evaluated by clinico-pathologic, histologic, bacteriologic, and virologic (molecular) e ... | 2012 | 22545556 |
| conflict resolution of grammar and gender for avian species-group names under article 31.2.2 of the iczn code: is gender agreement worth it? | we analyze recent nomenclatural treatment of selected avian species-group names that may be either adjective and variable or noun and invariable. in 27 such names, we found that 14 previously identified as adjectives are nouns under article 31.2.2 of the international code of zoological nomenclature. five of them may require correction in current checklists; they are bresilius in ramphocelus bresilius (linnaeus, 1766) to bresilia, germana in amblyornis macgregoriae germana rothschild, 1910 to ge ... | 2016 | 27395618 |
| cytotaxonomy of the ciconiiformes (aves), with karyotypes of eight species new to cytology. | somatic karyotypes of 13 species of ciconiiform birds, phoenicopterus ruber chilensis, phoeniconaias minor, cochlearius cochlearius, geronticus eremita, threskiornis molucca, t. spinicollis, balaeniceps rex, ciconia ciconia, c. nigra, euxenura maguari, xenorhynchus asiaticus, ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, and leptoptilos crumeniferus are presented. the chromosomes of eight of these species are described in detail for the first time. of special interest are a case of structural heterozygosity in ... | 1982 | 7151490 |
| a revision of patagifer dietz, 1909 (digenea: echinostomatidae) and a key to its species. | patagifer dietz, 1909 is revised and a key to the species is presented. p. oweni n. sp. is described from threskiornis molucca (cuvier) in the western province of papua new guinea and distinguished from the related p. chandrapuri srivastava, 1952 by: the shape of the pair of large angle spines (cudgel-shaped vs sub-rectangular); pointed (vs rod-shaped) marginal spines; a smaller body and internal organs; more anteriorly located testes; and larger eggs. the new species differs from p. brygooi ric ... | 2008 | 18535788 |
| perfluorinated alkyl acids in water, sediment and wildlife from sydney harbour and surroundings. | perfluorinated alkyl compounds (pfcs) including perfluorooctane sulphonate (pfos) and perfluorooctanoate (pfoa) were measured in environmental samples collected from around homebush bay, an urban/industrial area in the upper reaches of sydney harbour and parramatta river estuary. water, surface sediment, sea mullet (mugil cephalus), sydney rock oyster (saccostrea commercialis) and eggs of two bird species; white ibis (threskiornis molucca), and silver gull (larus novaehollandiae) were analysed. ... | 2011 | 21963084 |