Rising from Down Under: developments in subterranean biodiversity in Australia from a groundwater fauna perspective

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Protecting the innocent: studying short-range endemic taxa enhances conservation outcomes (2011, background): “1), two new species of Bamazomus Harvey, 1992 and four new species of Paradraculoides Harvey, Berry, Edward & Humphreys, 2008 (Harvey and Humphreys 1995; Harvey 2001; Harvey et al. 2008) has brought the total number of named species in the Pilbara to 12.”
Biodiversity, functional roles and ecosystem services of groundwater invertebrates (2008, background): “These groundwater metazoans (stygofauna) include many unique representatives of lineages from various geological periods and can exhibit extraordinary endemicity (Poore and Humphreys 1992; Harvey 2002; Humphreys 2006, 2008).”
New insights into the phylogeny, systematics and DNA barcoding of Nemertea (2014, background): “D) were recovered from boreholes used to sample subsurface calcrete aquifers in the arid Pilbara region of Western Australia; Nemertea thus joins the extremely diverse assemblage of stygofauna known from such habitats (Humphreys 2008; Guzik et al. 2011).”
Is the Australian subterranean fauna uniquely diverse (2010, background): “Also providing links are isolated seamounts (Namiotko et al. 2004; Humphreys 2008) and Gondwanan lineages (Poore and Humphreys 1998) although the Tethyan origin of some anchialine faunal elements may be uncertain (Karanovic and Eberhard 2009).”