Lecture 1-4

Question 1

Gondwanan Countries

Answer 1

India, New Zealand, Antarctica, Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, South America

Question 2

Marsupial Distribution

Answer 2

Australia, South America, Northern America, Papua New Guinea

Question 3

Wallace’s Line

Answer 3

Divides Indo-Malaysian from Austro-Malaysian

Question 4

Ancestral Fauna

Answer 4

Platypus (fossil record in south america), lungfish (africa and south america also)

Question 5

Recent faunal arrivals

Answer 5

Independent bats, dingo early colonisers, european colonisers

Question 6

Faunal Influences

Answer 6

Isolation, past losses, environment and ecology, soil and climate

Question 7

Freshwater fish definitions

Answer 7

Evolutionary history (4 sp, lungfish saratoga and salamanderfish), inhabit inland water (migration), inhabit low salinity (inland high salinity)

Question 8

marine colonisers

Answer 8

catfish, rainbowfish, galaxiids

Question 9

why few australian freshwater

Answer 9

80% arid, few rivers, ephemeral bodies

Question 10

anadromous

Answer 10

sea to stream, eg lamprey

Question 11

catadromous

Answer 11

stream to sea, eg barramundi

Question 12

amphidromous

Answer 12

non breeding migration either way

Question 13

potadromous

Answer 13

freshwater migration

Question 14

barramundi migration

Answer 14

spawn at sea, migrate to freshwater, matire to males, migrate to sea, become females, spawn

Question 15

turtle families

Answer 15

chelidae (side neck), carettochelydidae (pitted shell), chelonidae (loggerhead), dermochelyidae (leatherbacks)

Question 16

gekko and pygopod links

Answer 16

vocality, fixed clutch size, tail autonomy

Question 17

varanidae and serpentes links

Answer 17

forked tongue, venom, ritual male combat

Question 18

australian snake families

Answer 18

elapidae, colourbridae, typhlopidae, acrochordidae, pythonidae, hydrophiidae, laticaudidae