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Fungi at Tumbi Wetlands |
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Plants - and -Animals - and - Fungi . To learn more about any of the living things at Tumbi Wetlands, mouse click on one of the underlined links above or one of the photos below that describes your interest. | ||||
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| Animals include invertebrates with no hard body parts or with only a protective hard shell on the outside of the body. Some of these have parts that are jointed so that they can move, and vertebrates, with an internal skeleton like humans Back to top of page |
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Animals with soft bodies and no external protection: Worms There are quite a lot of animals with soft bodies, many of which are so small that a microscope is needed to see them, but among the ones we can see, there is a variety of worms, including earthworms which live in the soil and leaches which usually are found in or near water. | |||
 | Photo at left shows some of the small worms living in the mud at the bottom of the pool; notice the adaptation shown by the small one - it has a lot of bed blood cells to help it extract oxygen from the largely depleted water around it. Leeches are segmented worms, just like earthworms, that usually live in water. They are an interesting part of the food chain as they are both food for predators and predators themselves. | ||
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Animals with soft bodies inside a hard shell: Molluscs or Snails Some of the animals with soft bodies, protect themselves by growing a shell as a covering or a "house". | |||
 | Here is one of the larger water snails at Tumbi Wetlands - less than 2 cm long, crawling along with feelers extended. They browse on the algae covering the rocks in the pond. | ||
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Animals with hard shells and jointed legs: Arthropods There are two major groups of animals with hard outer shells and jointed limbs. They are classified by the number of pairs of legs each one has. Insects have 3 pair, spiders have 4 pair and others e.g. centipedes, have more. | |||
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| Insects are a very diverse group of animals and are divied into groups according to how their wings are structured. Some have four wings, like Dragonflies and Beetles. For Beetles the outer wings are hard like the body shell. Many insects have a life cycle of 4 stages | Spiders are predators, hunters of smaller animals, which have evolved to have quite a variety of different web types. These were monitored during a biodiversity survey when at least 11 different types of webs were encountered. Some were large round webs at least half a metre across while the smallest was only a few centimetres across.
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Animals with backbones: vertebrates There are no fish at Tumbi Wetlands but all the other vertebrate groups are represented: | ||
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| Crinia signifera | ||
| Limnodynastes peronii | ||
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| Egernia major | ||
| Eulamprus quoyii | ||
| Lampropholis guichenoti | ||
| Pseudechis porphyriacus | ||
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| Eolophus roseicapillus | ||
| Calyptorhynchus funereus | ||
| Alisterus scapularis | ||
| Trichoglossus haematodus | ||
| Platycercus eximius | ||
| Acanthorhynchus tenuiorosris | ||
| Anthochaera chrysoptera | ||
| Anthochaera carunculata | ||
| Phylidonyris nigra | ||
| Myzomela sanguinolenta | ||
| Meliphaga lewinii | ||
| Philemon corniculatus | ||
| Manorina melanochephala | ||
| Eopsaltria australis | ||
| Petroica rosea | ||
| Rhipidura albiscapa | ||
| Malurus cyaneus | ||
| Neochmia temporalis | ||
| Anas superciliosa | ||
| Anas castanea | ||
| Egretta novaehollandiae | ||
| Eurystomus orientalis | ||
| Dacelo novaeguineae | ||
| Todiramphus sanctus | ||
| Cracticus torquatus | ||
| Psophodes olivaceus | ||
| Ptilonorhynchus violaceus | ||
| Sphecotheres vieilloti | ||
| Grallina Cyanoleuca | ||
| Scythrops novaehollandiae | ||
| Eudynamys scolopacea | ||
| Coracina novaehollandiae | ||
| Colluricincla harmonica | ||
| Macropygia amboinennsis | ||
| Alectura lathami | ||
| Ocyphaps lophotes | ||
| Podargus strigoides | ||
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| Pseudocheirus peregrinus | ||
| Pteropus poliocephalus | ||