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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-10)Eteline snappers are an important component of commercial demersal fisheries in the central and western Pacific, but there is a substantial gap in the knowledge of their life histories, specifically the larval and ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-10)The South African hermatypic coral fauna consists of 96 species in 42 scleractinian genera, one stoloniferous octocoral genus (Tubipora), and one hermatypic hydrocoral genus (Millepora). There are more species in southern ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-01)This paper is a biography of the Swedish botanist Johan Emanuel Wikstrom (1789-1856), professor at the Bergius Botanic Garden, Stockholm, after whom the plant genus Wikstroemia Endl. (Thymelaeaceae) is named. A short ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-01)DEDICATION: This paper is dedicated to "Ka'imipono" Rendell D. Tong (13 September 1959-4 January 1995). In his lifetime Rendell supported many environmental efforts in Hawai'i, especially the work reported in this ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-10)Annual surveys of the entire range of the endangered Palila (Loxioides bailleui Oustalet) on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, were conducted during 1980-1995. The majority of the Palila population was found on the southwestern slope ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-04)The Kane'ohe Bay lagoon floor is one of the largest shallowwater, muddy habitats in Hawai'i and is a major repository for sediments and, possibly, pollutants from the Kane'ohe watershed. Nonetheless, macrobenthic community ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-04)The five native species of amphidromous gobioid fishes inhabiting Hawaiian streams were compared for dentition, gut length to body length ratios, intestinal convolution, gill raker morphology, position of mouth, and diet. ...
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A New, Distinctively Colored Snake Eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Northeastern New Zealand (University of Hawaii Press, 1996-01)Quassiremus polyclitellum, n. sp., described from three specimens line-fished at island outliers in 35-58 m represents the first record of Quassiremus Jordan & Davis, 1891, for the Indo-West Pacific. It has regularly ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-04)Five new species are described: one in the brown algal genus Padina and four in the red algal genera Hypoglossum, Spirocladia, Micropeuce, and Laurencia. Padina melemele Abbott & Magruder differs from known Padina species ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-07)Twelve species of lizards and the marine toad (Bufo marinus L.) were surveyed in six habitat types at three sites on the island of Saipan, Mariana Islands, using visual censuses, hand captures, and adhesive traps. ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-01)Yellowtail scad or 'omaka, Atule mate (Cuvier & Valenciennes), spawn mostly between March and September or October, but there is considerable interannual variation in length of the season and egg density in Kane'ohe Bay. ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-07)A new species of caridean shrimp of the family Rhynchocinetidae, Rhynchocinetes rathbunae Okuno, is described and illustrated based on six males, an ovigerous female, a second female, and a juvenile from the Hawaiian Islands. ...
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Shark Records from Longline Fishing Programs in Hawai'i with Comments on Pacific Ocean Distributions (University of Hawaii Press, 1996-10)This paper summarizes records from longline fishing programs conducted in Hawai'i between 1959 and 1980. Data from 11 species of sharks (173 individual sharks) are reported and compared with worldwide records. Although ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-04)Insect faunas associated with 10 tree species growing in a submontane area in Papua New Guinea are described and compared. In total, 75,000 insects were collected on these trees during the day and night by hand collecting, ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-10)Spatial and temporal zooplankton biomass distribution obtained during three oceanographic cruises in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico, located between 14°30'-16°12' N and 92°00'-96°30' W, in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-01)Since its introduction to Tahiti in 1937 as an ornamental, Miconia calvescens DC. (Melastomataceae) has become the most important plant pest in the Society Islands. Its ecological characteristics allow it to thrive ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-07)Humans played an important role in modifying the prehistoric environments of most Pacific Islands. In this paper we reconstruct the role of Polynesians in transforming the late Holocene landscape of the 'Opunohu ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-02)Twenty-seven stream segments sampled in August 1994 on the three largest Fiji Islands ranged considerably in channel size (maximum width 1-20 m, maximum depth 20->100 cm) and mean current velocity (1-118 cm sec-1 ). ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1996-10)A brief review is given of the literature of the soleid genus Aseraggodes, restricted to the Indo-Pacific region except for one species in the Galapagos Islands. Aseraggodes ocellatus, described from Sri Lanka by ...