Mount Aopinie Explained
Mount Aopinie (French: Mont Aoupinié) is a mountain of central New Caledonia, with an elevation of .[1]
[2] [3] The source of the Poya River lies to the southwest. The landscape is dominated by dense forest.
The eponymous faunal reserve[4] (Réserve de Faune de l’Aoupinié) contains the mountain and its surrounds, straddling the border between Poya and Ponérihouen communes.
Biological names that reference the location include: the spiders Bradystichus aoupinie(Wikispecies) and Orstom aoupinie(Wikispecies); and the moth genus Aoupinieta. Type specimens for the lizard Nannoscincus rankini[5] and the flatworm Pimea monticola were collected at the mountain's summit.
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-21.1789°N 165.2667°W
Notes and References
- Winsor . Leigh . 1991 . A new genus and species of terrestrial flatworm from the central highlands of New Caledonia (Tricladida: Terricola) . Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Série A, Zoologie . 149 . 19–30.
- Book: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. 139, 1987). 13 May 2012. Academy of Natural Sciences. 978-1-4379-5538-5. 450.
- Book: Wanat, Marek. Genera of Australo-Pacific Rhadinocybinae and Myrmacicelinae: with biogeography of the Apionidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) and phylogeny of the Brentidae (s. lato). 13 May 2012. 2001. Mantis. 978-83-914336-1-4. 135.
- Web site: Inland sports . New Caledonia Tourism . 9 March 2022 . en-AU.
- Sadlier . Ross A. . A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia . Records of the Australian Museum . 5 May 1987 . 39 . 1 . 1–66 . 10.3853/j.0067-1975.39.1987.164. free .
