Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian biota

Welcome to the Australian Biota WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors that is part of WikiProject Australia dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Australian biota.


 * Goals
 * To enhance and collaborate all articles that are related to Australian biota.


 * Scope
 * Everything to do with Australian flora and fauna.

Guidelines
The guidelines of associated WikiProjects should be used in creating content on Australia biota. For example, for the Rainbow Lorikeet article, the guidelines of WikiProject Birds should be used.

See below regarding guidelines for basic content in lead sentences and paragraphs.

Current issues
Relevant to the project and articles within...


 * September 2022 - Flora_of_New_South_Wales - where the lack of an article as opposed to the category is being discussed...

Other articles to work on

 * Reptiles of Australia to featured list.
 * Amphibians of Australia to featured article.
 * Birds of Australia to featured article.
 * Fish in Australia direction required see talk page.
 * Expand and create articles related to native Australia fungi.
 * Improve and expand articles on the ecoregions of Australia including IBRA (terrestrial) and IMCRA (marine) bioregions.
 * Pisonia umbellifera editing for quality

Autralian biota articles without wikidata images (and probably without images on their page)

 * Fauna with Australian Faunal Directory ids which have an article but no image
 * Queensland biota
 * Plants with APNI ids and no image

Guidelines for new stubs

 * Few if any biota items are found in all of Australia, literally - many stubs have found in Australia with no specified region or state.
 * Common problem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lead_section#Organisms - (quoted verbatim here)

''When a common (vernacular) name is used as the article title, the boldfaced common name is followed by the italic boldfaced scientific name in round parentheses in the first sentence of the lead. Alternative names should be mentioned and reliably sourced in the text where applicable, with bold type in the lead if they are in wide use, or elsewhere in the article (with or without the bold type, per editorial discretion) if they are less used. It is not necessary to include non-English common names, unless they are also commonly used in English, e.g. regionally; if included, they should be italicized as non-English''
 * Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii)

''When the article title is the scientific name, reverse the order of the scientific and common name(s) (if any of the latter are given), and boldface as well as italicize the scientific name. Avoid putting the most common name in parentheses (this will suppress its display in some views of Wikipedia, including Wikipedia:Pop-ups and Google Knowledge Graph)''


 * Vitis vinifera, the common grape vine

Participants
Please add your name here, and indicate areas of interest. Please try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

user WikiProject Australian biota


 * 1) Photographs of anything I see
 * 2) Australian plants, specifically pisonia umbellifera.
 * 3) - flora, reptiles, birds, invertebrates, ecology, ecosystems, cryptozoology, photos
 * 4) - General interest in all Fauna, with particular interest in marine animals
 * 5) - vertebrates, wildlife conservation
 * 6) User:Ds2320 - Australian beetles
 * 7) Enlil Ninlil - Any extinct animal, doing extinct Diprotodontia now.
 * 8) - Mainly marsupials, monotremes and birds
 * 9) - Australian plant genera
 * 10) - Anything/everything - available for an independant review of any article
 * 11) - project maintenance
 * 12) - interested mainly in Australia's rainforest flora
 * 13) - Mostly Australian frogs, but will help with anything.
 * 14) - potentially anything
 * 15) - Anything - sponges, frogs, spiders, beetle, plants....
 * 16) - mostly plants, especially orchids, plus arid zone biota
 * 17) yoyo - Helping out any way I can.
 * 18) - Horticulturist, interested in fauna, contributes to ALA / iNaturalist

not currently active participants (more than one year since last edit)

 * 1) - anything and everything, particular expertise with birds (esp. Marbled Frogmouth, Black-breasted Buttonquail, rare/threatened forest/rainforest-dependent species)
 * 2) (Everything to do with Australian Fauna)
 * 3) - Extinct megafauna including the Marsupial Lion and the Diprotodon. Also some Australian Flora, Australian Living Fossils and significant fossil deposits.


 * 1) - Australian ants# - Will help with all fauna, specializing in reptiles, amphibians, and marine life.
 * 2) - Fauna and Flora
 * 3) - Helping out any way I can.
 * 4) - 'General' reader, offering review and eclectic comment. Images soon.
 * 5) - Mostly Australian frogs, and anything else I know a bit about.
 * 6) - Australian frogs and some SA freshwater fish
 * 7) - Flora, and a little on biomes perhaps.
 * 8) Helicarion (talk) 06:16, 31 July 2016 (UTC) - Invertebrates, fauna and flora of eastern Australia, esp. FNQ
 * 9) - All things, specialising in flora
 * 10) - Dogs, birds
 * 11) - Mainly Thylacine
 * 12) Australian fauna, especially mammals and birds
 * 13) Marsupials, Monotremes, especially the rare and extinct species


 * 1) - Dalhousie Goby (freshwater desert fish)

Featured content

 * Fauna of Australia
 * Cane Toad
 * Emu
 * Green and Golden Bell Frog
 * Platypus
 * Short-beaked Echidna
 * Tasmanian Devil
 * Thylacine
 * White's Tree Frog
 * Banksia brownii
 * Banksia integrifolia
 * Banksia epica
 * Banksia telmatiaea
 * Banksia ericifolia
 * Banksia spinulosa

Good articles

 * Australian Ringneck
 * Murray cod

Did you knows (DYKs)

 * Barrier Reef Anemonefish - 15 January 2007

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Australian biota-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.


 * Chlamydogobius gloveri WikiWhizzard2702 (Don't shout here, Shout here!) 2:49, 26 May 2022 (AEST) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalhousie_goby Hi guys, I wrote this article, please check it out and give me feedback!
 * Maratus anomalus Leomk0403 (Don't shout here, Shout here!)  11:08, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 *  Platycephalus endrachtensis Leomk (Don't shout here, Shout here!)  03:36, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Cyperus dietrichiae Leomk (Don't shout here, Shout here!)  03:36, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Leptocarpus tenax found in Special:NewPages (no wikilink on purpose) Leomk (Don't shout here, Shout here!)  02:52, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Cerbera inflata created February 2021 Junglenut &#124; talk 07:37, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Elaeocarpus culminicola created September 2020 Junglenut &#124; talk 07:37, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Desert_rat-kangaroo article was very significantly changed and expanded. I added a distribution map as well. Any photographs of museum specimens of this species or photographs of its habitat would be very, very welcome.Wilhelm Klave (talk) 14:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Red-browed Finch is no-longer a stub. --naught101 (talk) 12:48, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Dermocybe Austroveneta  •E l om i s•     10:39, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Bull Arab article on a (relatively new) crosss-bred Australian dog needs help. I tried to help but all my changes got reverted. AWHS (talk) 08:27, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Templates

 * APNI, for citing the Australian Plant Names Index.

Categories

 * Category:Fauna of Australia
 * Category:Endemic fauna of Australia
 * Fauna by state or territory
 * Category:Fauna of the Australian Capital Territory
 * Category:Fauna of New South Wales
 * Category:Fauna of the Northern Territory
 * Category:Fauna of Queensland
 * Category:Fauna of South Australia
 * Category:Fauna of Tasmania
 * Category:Endemic fauna of Tasmania
 * Category:Fauna of Victoria (state)
 * Category:Fauna of Western Australia
 * Category:Endemic fauna of Southwest Australia
 * Category:Flora of Australia - Proposed usage convention at WikiProject Australian biota/Categories.
 * Category:Endemic flora of Australia
 * Flora by state or territory
 * Category:Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
 * Category:Flora of New South Wales
 * Category:Flora of the Northern Territory
 * Category:Flora of Queensland
 * Category:Endemic flora of Queensland
 * Category:Flora of South Australia
 * Category:Flora of Tasmania
 * Category:Endemic flora of Tasmania
 * Category:Flora of Victoria (state)
 * Category:Flora of Western Australia
 * Category:Endemic flora of Western Australia
 * Category:Endemic flora of Southwest Australia
 * Flora by taxonomy
 * Category:Angiosperms of Australia‎
 * Category:Eudicots of Australia‎
 * Category:Asterids of Australia
 * Category:Caryophyllales of Australia
 * Category:Proteales of Australia
 * Category:Rosids of Australia
 * Category:Rosids of Western Australia‎
 * Category:Fabales of Australia‎
 * Category:Fagales of Australia‎
 * Category:Geraniales of Australia‎
 * Category:Malpighiales of Australia‎
 * Category:Malvales of Australia‎
 * Category:Myrtales of Australia
 * Category:Oxalidales of Australia‎
 * Category:Rosales of Australia‎
 * Category:Sapindales of Australia‎
 * Category:Saxifragales of Australia
 * Category:Monocots of Australia‎
 * Category:Orchids of Australia
 * Category:Endemic orchids of Australia
 * Category:Palms of Australia
 * Category:Bryophyta of Australia‎
 * Category:Cycadophyta of Australia‎
 * Category:Ferns of Australia‎
 * Category:Pinales of Australia‎

Related projects

 * WikiProject Banksia
 * WikiProject Tree of Life
 * WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials