Articles about the description of fossil brachiopods from the South Island, the conservation of canned food from Cape Hallett Station in Antarctica, the Charles Chilton collection of crustacean types held at Canterbury Museum, two new mayfly species from the West Coast, the life and legacy of Sir Julius von Haast and a botanical survey of one of the Poor Knights Islands.
Records of the Canterbury Museum Volume 30 2016
Records of the Canterbury Museum Volume 30 2016
Thu, 29 Sept 2016
Articles
New Cretaceous brachiopods from the South Island, New Zealand
Norton Hiller
ABSTRACT: Two new brachiopod taxa of Late Cretaceous age are described from contrasting depositional settings in North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Gowanella capralis gen. et sp. nov. lived in a shallow water oyster reef. The second taxon, which cannot be properly diagnosed, is a deep water form from an outer shelf to upper slope environment. Both species are terebratulids; Gowanella is placed in the new family Ostreathyridae but the other form cannot be readily placed in an appropriate family.
What can we do? A case study in the conservation of canned wet food in museum collections
Emily Fryer, Sarah Murray, Lisa Yeats
ABSTRACT: This research report considers the process of conserving canned wet food in museum collections. It details, as a case study, the methods of content removal, sampling procedure and scientific analysis performed in 2014 on part of a collection of canned wet food from Cape Hallett Station, Antarctica, held in the collections of Canterbury Museum. Offering recommendations on storage, analysis and the display of canned wet food collections, the intent of the report is to encourage future, and more detailed, research into the conservation of wet food collections.
Types of Charles Chilton's Crustacea with comments on his collections in the Canterbury Museum
Matthew Shaw, Gary Poore
ABSTRACT: The life of the New Zealand biologist, Charles Chilton (1860–1929), is briefly outlined, a description of his collection of Crustacea at the Canterbury Museum given, and the types catalogued. The species described by Chilton, 52 amphipods, 51 isopods, five tanaidaceans and three decapods, are listed alphabetically in their original combinations. The present-day name, family placement, type locality and a listing of available type material in alcohol and on microslides are given. Rediscovery of previously unrecognised types has led to the setting aside of two recent neotype designations: Platyischnopus neozelanicus Chilton, 1897 (Amphipoda: Otagiidae) by Hughes and Lörz (2013) and Paratanais ignotus Chilton, 1885 (Tanaidacea: Paratanaidae) by Edgar (2012). Glycerina affinis Chilton, 1885 is a member of Ichnopus Costa, 1853 (Amphipoda: Uristidae). Ichnopus affinis (Chilton, 1885) is a subjective junior homonym of a Mediterranean species and here replaced by Ichnopus parriwi Lowry & Stoddart, 1992.
Two further species of Deleatidium (Deleatidium) (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from New Zealand
Terry Hitchings, Tim Hitchings
ABSTRACT: Two new species of mayfly, Deleatidium (Deleatidium) acerbum sp. nov. and D. (D.) kawatiri sp. nov., from the western South Island of New Zealand are described. The principal life stages are included and have been associated by rearing. Notes on ecology and distribution in weakly acidic streams are given. Diagnostic characters of the new species are illustrated and compared with similar species.
The life and legacy of Sir Julius von Haast; exploring archival documentary heritage collections
Sascha Nolden
ABSTRACT: Sir Julius von Haast (1822–1887) was one of the most influential German-born New Zealand scientists of the nineteenth century. He contributed to the establishment and development of scientific institutions, palaeontological research, geographical exploration and geological surveys, and established a network of correspondents around the globe to facilitate the exchange of information, knowledge, specimens and publications. The results of his efforts are evident from
the maps and reports of geological surveys undertaken in the provinces of Nelson, Canterbury and Westland, and the establishment and development of Canterbury Museum. Details of his activities and approach to scientific endeavour and collegial cooperation become more fully evident through examining the archives representing his life and work found in the manuscripts, letters, photographs and sketches held in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library and elsewhere.
The Northern Pinnacle, Poor Knights Islands: natural history notes on a brief landing in 1983
Anthony Wright
ABSTRACT: Fourteen species of vascular plant are recorded for this small, precipitous, rarely visited islet. Brief observations on the vegetation, geology and fauna are recorded.
Records of the Canterbury Museum Volume 30 2016
The full volume of Records of the Canterbury Museum 30.