Pacific Science Volume 52, Number 2, 1998

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Pacific Science is a quarterly publication devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific Region.

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52:2 Table of Contents - Pacific Science

(University of Hawaii Press, 1998-04)
Abstracts of Papers: Twenty-first Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium, 11-12 April 1996

(University of Hawaii Press, 1998-04)
Benthic Communities Associated with Carbonate Rubble and Adjacent Soft Sediments in a Shallow Coastal Area of O'ahu, Hawai'i

McCarthy, SA; Bailey-Brock, JH; Estabrooks, WA (University of Hawaii Press, 1998-04)

Although the shallow, wave-swept sedimentary environment of the near-shore subtidal region of Hawai'i would be expected to be characterized by a relatively homogenous community associated with shifting sediments, small-scale ...
Coral Borers of the Eastern Pacific: Aspidosiphon (A.) elegans (Sipuncula: Aspidosiphonidae) and Pomatogebia rugosa (Crustacea: Upogebiidae)

Fonseca, Ana C; Cortes, Jorge (University of Hawaii Press, 1998-04)

This is the first report of the sipunculan Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) elegans (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) in the tropical eastern Pacific. With this species the number of coral borers rises to 18 for this region. ...
First Confirmed East-West Transpacific Movement of a Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Caretta caretta, Released in Baja California, Mexico

Resendiz, Antonio; Resendiz, Beatris; Nichols, Wallace J; Seminoff, Jeffrey A; Kamezaki, Naoki (University of Hawaii Press, 1998-04)

In July 1994 a loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) was released from the central Pacific coast of the Baja California peninsula. Four hundred and seventy-eight days later the turtle was found by a fisherman off the coast ...
Functional, Simultaneous Hermaphroditism in Female-Phase Lysmata amboinensis (Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae)

Fiedler, G Curt (University of Hawaii Press, 1998-04)

Several species of hippolytid shrimp of the genus Lysmata are described as protandrous hermaphrodites, with speculation that some Lysmata are simultaneous hermaphrodites and/or store exogenous sperm. The objective of ...
Land Snail Extinctions at Kalaeloa, O'ahu

Dye, TS; Tuggle, HD (University of Hawaii Press, 1998-04)

A decline over time in the proportion of native land snail taxa believed to be extinct today at Kalae10a has been interpreted and widely cited as an example of Polynesian influence on the Hawaiian environment. This ...
A New Species of the Genus Pempheris (Teleostei: Pempherididae) from Rapa Iti, French Polynesia

Mooi, Randall D (University of Hawaii Press, 1998-04)

Pempheris rapa Mooi, n. sp., is distinguished from congeners by the following combination of characters: scales strongly ctenoid and adherent; no gular scales; pelvic axillary scale absent; dorsal fin with six spines; ...