Corporate Body

Australian and New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society Inc (1979 - )

From
1979
Albert Park, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Association, Biological survey and Natural history
Alternative Names
  • ANZSES (Acronym)
Location
Albert Park, Victoria

Summary

The Australian and New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society (ANZSES) conducts scientific explorations into wilderness areas of Australia. A Newsletter (ISSN 8012-485X) was published starting in 1982. The Society is commemorated in the names of two endemic spiders, Mandjelia anzses and Hadronyche anzses.

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Expeditions of the Society included:
1979 Fitzgerald River National Park, Western Australia
1983 Walcott Bay, Kimberley, Western Australia
1986 Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland
1988 Lake Eyre, South Australia (in conjunction with CSIRO)
1990 Witjira National Park, South Australia
1993 Tallaringa Conservation Park, South Australia (in conjunction with South Australian Department of Environment and Natural Resources)
1994 Arckaringa Hills, South Australia

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Published resources

Edited Books

  • Lee, Helen M. and Lawrence, Ruth E. eds, Natural history of the Archaringa Hills (Bendigo, Vic.: Australian and New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society, 2000), 148 pp. Details

Resources

See also

  • Myroniuk, P., 'A survey of mammal on Hinchinbrook Island, north Queensland', Australian zoologist, 25 (1) (1988), 6-10, https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1988.006. Details
  • Raven, R. J., 'A new species of funnel-web spider (Hadronyche, Hexathelidae, Mygalomorphae) from north Queensland', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 46 (1) (2000), 225-30. Details
  • Raven, Robert J., 'Mygalmorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the western Pacific', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 35 (2) (1994), 291-706. Details

Ailie Smith

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