There are not many parts of the world where a whole new aggregation of living things can be discovered.But after the selection
The underground fauna that scientists have collected fromaquifers NT, including a number of species unknown to science. A - C: atid shrimp including Parisia unguis; DF: Amphipods of the family Melitidae; G: syncarid species Brevisomabathynella sp.; HJ: members of the ostracod family Candonidae; K: harpacticoid species Nitokra lacustris; L: a new species of snail from the family Caenogastropoda: MN: members of the family Cyclopidae copepods; O: Aeolosoma sp. Photo: GISERA, provided by the author
Stygofauna is any fauna that lives in groundwater systems or aquifers.
Animals Bitalu, new genera and speciescrustaceans, differ from the stygofauna recorded in the better studied aquifers of Western Australia. Research results published by CSIRO confirm that the Northern Territory's aquifers support a diverse range of stygofauna. All sampled Beetalu stygofaunal communities were dominated by crustaceans—shrimps, amphipods, ostracods, copepods, and syncarids.
CSIRO scientist Gavin Rees Ph.D. stated,that the presence of the same stygofauna species in distant areas in the Cambrian limestone aquifer may indicate high connectivity within the aquifer. This needs to be taken into account in light of proposals for shale gas development. The CSIRO Gas Industry Social and Environmental Research Alliance is now conducting further research to quantify the risk of pollution impacts on stygofauna from potential industrial spills.
Professor Jenny Davis of CDU stressed that the stigofauna was a critical factor in climate change, moving underground as the surface waters of ancient inland Australia dried up.
Some of these crustaceans have never been seen before. There are not many places left in the world where you can find many new animals together at once.
Professor Jenny Davis from CDU
In August and October 2019, researchers fromCSIRO and the University's Environment and Life Science Institute collected samples from 26 groundwater wells and two springs approximately 500 km from the subtropical region of Mataranka in the north to the semi-arid Barkley Plateau in the south.
In addition to fishing rods and nets, researchers alsoused water pumps and state-of-the-art DNA analysis to detect the presence of known and unknown stygofauna in groundwater samples. The results of the study are important to inform policy and management responses to shale gas proposals.
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Northern Territory -territory of Australia, a federal subject of Australia, in the north of the mainland of the country, the status is slightly lower than that of the state. Bordered by Western Australia to the west, South Australia to the south and Queensland to the east, includes Alexandra Land.
An aquifer or aquifer is a sedimentary rock, represented by one or more interbedded underground layers of rocks with varying degrees of water permeability.