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Marble-faced delma |
Ngarkat Conservation Park, South Australia Photo © Jordan de Jong |
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Delma australis | |||||||
Pronunciation | DELL-mah oss-TRAH-liss | ||||||
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Etymology |
Delma: apparently meaningless
australis: 'southern', or more generally referring to Australia. |
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Range"...widespread throughout the subhumid to arid areas of southern Australia, from northwestern Victoria, and southwestern New South Wales, through most of South Australia and adjacent southern Northern Territory to southern and central west Western Australia (Wilson & Knowles 1988; Shea 1991; Swan et al. 2004; Wilson & Swan 2013). In Western Australia, it extends north to Shark Bay (base of Peron Peninsula), Meedo Station, Weld Range, Paynes Find, Windarling Hill and Buningonia Spring, south through the Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee and Coolgardie Goldfields bioregions, and east to Cocklebiddy. There is a disjunct population on the North West Cape, represented by a single specimen from Shothole Canyon in the Cape Range. Other possible outlier populations in the mid-west of Western Australia are Walyering Hill, Oakajee and near Kalbarri. Insular populations occur on Rat and Middle Islands in the Houtman Abrolhos."1 Found in the following Australian states/territoriesNew South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia Habitat
"In northwestern Victoria and southwestern New South Wales D. australis mainly occupies mallee habitats with a spinifex (Triodia) understorey (Swan et al. 2004; Swan & Watharow 2005). This habitat association is repeated in South Australia where the majority of the southern and western populations are from Triodia or mallee habitats, or combination of both (Shea 1991). The western Lake Eyre Basin population lives on gibber plain with Atriplex, on watercourses lined with Eucalyptus, and on low, stony hills with drainage channels and Acacia (Shea 1991; B. Maryan, pers. obs.). |
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