Mount Aopinie

Mount Aopinie (French: Mont Aoupinié) is a mountain of central New Caledonia, with an elevation of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).[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[1] were collected at the mountain's summit.

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Inland sports". New Caledonia Tourism. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  5. ^ 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.