Rice Doctor Rice Doctor is an interactive tool for extension workers, students, researchers and other users who want to learn and diagnose pest, disease, and other problems that can occur in rice; and how to manage them. This product has been developed by an international team involving – International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Lucid team…
Key to Order & Superfamily of Australian Collembola This key covers all 14 families of Collembola known from Australia. Few Collembola are truly aquatic and some families such as Cyphoderidae (ant inquilines) and Oncopoduridae (cave and soil species) would rarely be met in aquatic samples. But members of almost any family may occur in aquatic…
Key to Freshwater Arachnids (Spiders & Mites) This key is apart of the Keys to Australian Aquatic Macro-Invertebrates. The Arachnida belongs to the Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Chelicerata, and is typically placed at the level of Class. Arachnids are characterised by having 4 pairs of legs as adults and lacking antennae. Their mouthparts are chelicerae; however,…
Key to Families of Australian Aquatic Molluscs This key is apart of the Keys to Australian Aquatic Macro-Invertebrates. MOLLUSCA This large phylum is divided into several classes of which only the Bivalvia (bivalved molluscs) and Gastropoda (snails and slugs) are found in inland waters. BIVALVIA Bivalved molluscs occur commonly in marine and estuarine environments. Four…
Key to Families of Australian Aquatic Crustacea This key is apart of the Keys to Australian Aquatic Macro-Invertebrates. This key attempts to cover all families of Crustacea known to occur in Australian inland waters, fresh or salt, permanent or temporary, running or still. The first two characters enable a quick assignment to subclass or order.…
Key to Orders of Australian Aquatic Arthropoda This key is apart of the Keys to Australian Aquatic Macro-Invertebrates. This intermediate-level key covers the huge and diverse phylum Arthropoda. The major classes of arthropod found in inland waters are Crustacea (all life stages) and Insecta (adults and/or larvae and/or pupae). Lesser components of the fauna include…
Key to Class and Order of Australian Aquatic Flatworms This key is apart of the Keys to Australian Aquatic Macro-Invertebrates. The phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms) is divided into three classes and a large number of orders and families. The class Turbellaria contains free-living and commensal species, and the majority of aquatic flatworms are members of this…
Key to Phylum and Class of Australian Aquatic Invertebrates This is the central key in this series of linked Keys to Australian Aquatic Macro-Invertebrates. The key is designed to identify any specimen to a level corresponding approximately to Phylum or Class. For most major invertebrate groups this key points directly to a family-level subkey. For arthropod…
Key to the southern African species of the Relhania and Macowania groups in the Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae) Southern Africa is an important distribution centre for the family Asteraceae as well as for the tribe Gnaphalieae. For this tribe it houses 24% of the world’s species. More remarkable is that 75% of the Gnaphalieae genera in southern…
Key to Reticulitermes spp. of Georgia Identify the all endemic species of Reticulitermes spp. found in Georgia, USA Author: Su Yee Previous Next