Etymology: In honor of Prof. F. M. Carpenter, for his important contribution to the study of fossil insects, in particular Palaeozoic fauna.
Moreover, most of the mosquito surveys performed in areas of tropical rainforest in southeastern Brazil was focused on testing hypotheses concerning particular mosquito fauna along a gradient of anthropogenic modifications [ 18].
In particular, the ostracod fauna display a truly Balkanic character with eight taxa endemic to the area.
Additionally, to assess whether or not the rate of discovery of a particular type of fauna shows a tendency to decline, thus indicating that we are approaching its full description, we established the number of new species described per year and plotted accumulation curves for fishes, mollusks, and echinoderms.
Previous government analysis, including by the CSIRO, has blamed flooding rather than dredging for rising death and disease among the reef's fauna, in particular the heavily dredged area of Gladstone.
In the crowded countryside of southern England in particular, much of the fauna and flora were obliterated by the tide of pesticides which swept over the fields, followed by the mass uprooting of hedges and the creation of giant, sterile crop plains.
It is one of the warmest and the most saline waters on earth and this has imposed a harsh condition on the marine organisms (Coles and Fadlallah 1991; Reynolds 1993) and as a result, a particular and unique marine fauna has evolved in this environment.
Seamounts in particular can support a fauna that is distinct from that of the surrounding seafloor, potentially supporting both high levels of endemism and recruits from the regional gene pool [8].
The Malagasy fauna, in particular, is exceptionally diverse in wing pattern and wing shape.
However, our aim was solely to provide ordinal information on the succession of origin of the fauna in particular regions of the archipelago, rather than to provide exact dates of diversification events.
