Western Australian Museum

Recent papers from Western Australian Museum

1. First records of Amphioctopus mototi (Mollusca: Octopodidae) in Western AustraliaMolluscan Research · 2026
2. Gas gill respiration enhances underwater copulation in a water scorpioniScience · 2026
3. Designing a robust survey and monitoring program: A simulation approach to evaluate the power of various sampling designs to detect changes in possum population trendsConservation Science and Practice · 2026
4. On the edge: habitat patchiness and island isolation fracture the distribution of the endemic Kimberley rock-ratAustralian Mammalogy · 2026
5. Cave gudgeon (Milyeringa spp.) eDNA assay for rapid detection in the darkZooKeys · 2026
6. The Dingle Dell ( L6 ) meteorite fall: In‐depth characterization of an L chondrite with some LL ‐like properties originating from the inner main beltMeteoritics and Planetary Science · 2026
7. Sexual dimorphism of craniodental morphology for Australian carnivorous marsupials (family Dasyuridae)Australian Zoologist · 2026
8. δ 13 C as a Continuum: Tissue‐Based, Ontogenetic, and Interspecific Variation in Carbon Sourcing of a Photosymbiotic Bivalve (Subfamily Fraginae)Ecology and Evolution · 2026
9. Understanding ecosystem responses to recurrent marine heatwavesBiological Conservation · 2026
10. Invertivore fish predation is an overlooked source of carbonate sediment on a turbid coral reefCoral Reefs · 2026
11. William Frank Humphreys BSc (Hons) PhD 16 December 1944 – 28 February 2026Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia · 2026
12. Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Iron Meteorite Classification Using Random Forest: A Predictive Model to Classify Ungrouped IronsEarth and Space Science · 2026
13. Anthropogenic Effects, Not Climatic Factors, Are Correlated With Holocene Population Expansion of an Insular Bee FaunaJournal of Biogeography · 2026
14. Growing the Forest Not the Trees: A Methodology to Identify Strategic, Regional Opportunities for Sustainable Biodiversity OffsetsEcological Management & Restoration · 2026
15. Oblong turtles hybridise with an introduced congener and display a size-heterozygosity relationshipConservation Genetics · 2026
16. Wishbone spiders of the genus Kwonkan Main, 1983 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) in south-western Australia: Redescription of legacy species, two new species, and an assessment of agricultural zone diversityArthropod Systematics & Phylogeny · 2026
17. Between sand and salt: phylogeography of the Australian salt lake wolf spider Lycosa salifodina (Araneae: Lycosidae)Zoologischer Anzeiger · 2026
18. Virtual 3D-reconstruction facilitates identification of fragmented peramelemorph skullZooKeys · 2026
19. One small step for citizens, one giant leap for science: iNaturalist records boost our understanding of the evolution of parental care in a clade of arachnidsZoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2026
20. Hard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in Devonian placodermsScientific Reports · 2026