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STURTIAN Iredale & Whitley 1838
STURTIAN Iredale & Whitley 1838
Available Names:
Sturtian Iredale & Whitley 1838: 64–68 and map.
Additional synonomies:
Central Australian Province Unmack 2001: 1081. Paleao Province Unmack 2001: 1082.
Area Taxonomy:
FRESHWATER ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL AREAS OR FLUVIFAUNA
Sub-Realm:
AUSTRALIA Swainson 1835
Region:
STURTIAN Iredale & Whitley 1838
Diagnosis:
Inland drainages west of the Mitchellian Region.
Type-locality:
Cooper Creek at mouth (Lake Eyre), South Australia, Australia, 28°24’52”S 137°42’38”E.
As noted above, Iredale & Whitley’s (1938) map included the Gulf of Carpentaria portion of their Leichhardtian Fluvifauna within their Sturtian Fluvifauna contradicting their text definition of the former. No definition of the Sturtian Fluvifauna is provided in their text. It includes the following: Lake Eyre, the Bulloo-Bancannian Basin, Lake Torrens and the drainages in the Barkly Tablelands, as well as various isolated inland catchments in Unmack’s (2001) Palaeo Province (though excluding the Paleo-southwestern Drainage).
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