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The Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus) is an endangered species of short-necked turtle in the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to the Mary River in south-east Queensland , Australia. Although this turtle was known to inhabit the Mary River for nearly 30 years, it was not until 1994 that it was recognised as a new species. [ 3 ]
The Mary River is unique in that it flows south to north. [4] The river is important because it is home to three threatened species, the Mary River turtle, white-throated snapping turtle and the Mary River cod. [4] The Mary River was to be dammed with the construction of the Traveston Crossing Dam until it was cancelled due to environmental ...
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Mary River may refer to: Mary River (Northern Territory), Australia; Mary River (Queensland), Australia Mary River cod, an endangered freshwater fish; Mary River turtle, endemic to the Mary River in Queensland; Mary River (Western Australia), Australia; Mary River (Nunavut), Canada Mary River Mine, an iron ore mine; Mary River (Alaska), United ...
The Mary River turtle and the Queensland lungfish attracted particular attention regarding their conservation. The turtle, whose only known home is the Mary River, is a cloacal ventilator ('bum breather' - it uses oxygen from water taken in through its tail), and is listed in the top 25 most endangered turtle species in the world.
The pelagic food web, showing the central involvement of marine microorganisms in how the ocean imports nutrients from and then exports them back to the atmosphere and ocean floor. A marine food web is a food web of marine life. At the base of the ocean food web are single-celled algae and other plant-like organisms known as phytoplankton.
A potential new setback to the contentious One Lake development project comes down to the Pearl River Map Turtle, a species named for its distinct map-like shell pattern, that is unique to the ...
A freshwater aquatic food web. The blue arrows show a complete food chain (algae → daphnia → gizzard shad → largemouth bass → great blue heron). A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.