All Fauna Portal Species
All species currently uploaded to the Fauna Portal are accessible through this section of the website. The current focus is on Australian Orb-weaving Spiders (Araneidae) and terrestrial invertebrates of north-western Western Australia collected through resources
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Troglofauna of Western Australia
Western Australia belongs to one of the subterranean fauna hotspots of the world. Subterranean fauna is often highly range-restricted and therefore of conservation significance. This Fauna Portal project therefore aims to facilitate the identification of the largely undescribed troglofauna of Western Australia.
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Barrow Island
Barrow Island is an an A-class Nature Reserve off the Pilbara coast of north-western Western Australia. The construction of a gas treatment plant on this protected island triggered comprehensive environmental and quarantine surveys which documented almot 4,000 species of terrestrial invertebrates.
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