Mount Aopinie
Mount Aopinie (French: Mont Aoupinié) is a mountain of central New Caledonia, with an elevation of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).
The source of the Poya River lies to the southwest. The landscape is dominated by dense forest.
The eponymous faunal reserve (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 and Orstom aoupinie; and the moth genus Aoupinieta. Type specimens for the lizard Nannoscincus rankini and the flatworm Pimea monticola were collected at the mountain's summit.
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.
- ^ Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. 139, 1987). Academy of Natural Sciences. p. 450. ISBN 978-1-4379-5538-5. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ Wanat, Marek (2001). Genera of Australo-Pacific Rhadinocybinae and Myrmacicelinae: with biogeography of the Apionidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) and phylogeny of the Brentidae (s. lato). Mantis. p. 135. ISBN 978-83-914336-1-4. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ^ "Inland sports". New Caledonia Tourism. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ Sadlier, Ross A. (5 May 1987). "A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia". Records of the Australian Museum. 39 (1): 1–66. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.39.1987.164.
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21°10′44″S 165°16′0″E / 21.17889°S 165.26667°E
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