Tasmanian Odonata (1979) by Piers Allbrook

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Tasmanian Bird Atlas (1979) by David Thomas
This publication covers data collected during the period 1900-1976. About 10% of the records are based on the literature, the remaining 90% on observations made since 1960.

The earliest data was collected for the Atlas Project of the Bird Observors' Association of Tasmania (B.O.A.T.). This started as a personal venture of the author and grew, after incorporation with the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Atlas scheme, into a comprehensive collection of distribution maps for 138 species.       171 pages     

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Tasmanian Echinoderms (1980) by Alan Dartnall
Echinoderms exploit nearly every marine habitat, from the shore to the abyss, often in great numbers. Some are of economic importance as predators of oysters and mussels. Heliocidaris erythrogramma was investigated for its potential as a source of sea urchin roe for export.

The history of the study of Tasmanian echinoderms began with early colonial collections for cabinet specimens and continued through the work of H.L.Clark of Harvard, and early British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic expeditions. Recent work was carried out in Victoria by Pawson and Rowe and A.M. Clark and in Tasmania by V.V.Hickman and Alan Dartnall.

82 pages         Price $3.30

Tasmanian Caddis-flies (1981) by Arturs Neboiss
Caddis-flies (Order Trichoptera) are small insects closely related to Butterflies (Order Lepidoptera). Adult Caddis-flies are found in the vicinity of freshwater habitats from springs and creeks to streams, lakes or swamps where, during daytime, they hide in nearby vetetation, but fly during evenings or at night. The eggs are deposited in water where the larvae hatch, then build retreats, nets or portable cases.

According to their case-making behaviour patterns caddis-fly larvae have been classified into five groups. More than 70% of 163 species described in this handbook are endemic to Tasmania; the remainder are shared with the Australian mainland.

180 pages         Price $6.60

Tasmanian Land & Freshwater Molluscs (1981) by B.J Smith and R.C. Kershaw
This was the first comprehensive work on the Tasmanian non-marine molluscs in which every species is described and illustrated.

This handbook is intended to provide field keys to the identification of land and freshwater molluscs in Tasmania and to make available in one volume a checklist, with illustrations, of that fauna. Species inhabiting the littoral fringe have been included as many localities where these can be found have the general appearance of being non-marine. It is a compilation , in abridged form, of the Tasmanian information in the Field Guide to the Non-Marine Molluscs of South-Eastern Australia published by the same authors in 1979.

148 pages         Price $5.50

Frogs of Tasmania (2003) by Murray Littlejohn
This publication describes Tasmania's 11 species of frogs, in two families: Hylidae with three species and Myobatrachidae with eight species. There are subspecies of Lymnodynastes present on the main island, Flinders Island and King Island.

The first synthesis of the frogs of Tasmania, co-authored with Angus Martin, was published in 1974 as a chapter in the Biogeography and Ecology of Tasmania, and was followed in 1982 by the Field Guide to Tasmanian Amphibians (also with Angus Martin). In 1988 the author and Graeme Watson surveyed frogs in the World Heritage area of Western Tasmania. Subsequent research has included detailed studies of the geographic variation in the advertisement calls of frogs in Tasmania, on the adjacent mainland and in New Zealand.

Full colour - 80 pages         Price $20.00

Tasmanian Freshwater Fishes (1990) by Wayne Fulton
Many of the native freshwater fish species are not well known to the general public whilst some of the introduced species are so familiar that they are occasionally mistakenly thought to be native to the state.

The Tasmanian freshwater fish fauna consists of 25 species of native fish and a further 8 introduced species. At least 15 further species which are predominately marine or estuarine inhabitants, may be found some distance inland at certain times of the year. Some of these are more frequent invaders than others and the listing of species as freshwater is somewhat arbitrary. The lampreys are included in this and other fish guides by tradition, although they are not fishes in the strict sense.

80 pages        Price $10.50

Tasmanian Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic Hemipterans (2002) by I. Lansbury & P.S. Lake
Although originally mooted as No.8 in the Fauna of Tasmania series this book was published by the Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology (closed in 2005 and now succeeded by EWater CRC , www.ewatercrc.com.au)
as Identification and Ecology Guide No.40 edited by John H. Hawking. 67 pages. ISBN 1 8761444 42 4.

Enquiries about purchasing this book should be directed to the Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, P.O. Box 991, Wodonga Vic, Australia 3690 , Ph 02 6058 2300 or Fax 02 6059 7531

Sorry but his book is not available for order from the School of Zoology, University of Tasmania.

Snakes and Lizards of Tasmania (2001) by Mark Hutchinson, Roy Swain and Michael Driessen
All of Tasmania's reptiles are squamates, the total fauna consisting of eighteen species of lizard and three species of snake.

Tasmania's cool to cold climate makes it a potentially difficult area for reptiles to inhabit, and the State's reptile fauna is modest in comparison with areas of similar size on the Australian mainland. However the fauna is of great interest precisely because of the adversity of the conditions which Tasmanian species have successfully overcome. Moreover, the island boasts a distinctive radiation of endemic lizards, seven species being restricted to the State.

Full colour - 63 pages         Price $17.00

Zooplankton constitutes a fascinating, diverse and abundant group of animals living in the upper layers of the seas. They are the principal diet of most of the larger pelagic animals, including commercially important fish, so their study is essential in forming a more complete understanding of functioning marine ecosystems.

Plankton are easily captured in simple nets with fine mesh, but because they are small, identification is often difficult.There is no other simple guide to the common types of Zooplankton in our region. This book is part of the Fauna of Tasmania series, but it will be equally useful in other estuarine and coastal areas of temperate Australia and New Zealand.

90 pages        Price $18.00