Pacific Science Volume 56, Number 1, 2002

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56:1 Table of Contents - Pacific Science

(University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)
Abstracts of Papers. Twenty-sixth Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium, 11-12 April 2001

(University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)

The Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium is held in honor of Professor Albert Tester, who, at the time of his death in 1974, was senior professor of zoology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The faculty and students ...
Dispersal, Mimicry, and Geographic Variation in Northern Melanesian Birds

Diamond, Jared (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)

I present new information about 34 of the 195 resident land and freshwater bird species of Northern Melanesia, an area characterized by a rich avifauna, high endemism, and great geographic variation in morphology. ...
The Ka'ena Highstand of O'ahu, Hawai'i: Further Evidence of Antarctic Ice Collapse during the Middle Pleistocene

Hearty, Paul J (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)

Marine isotope stage (MIS) 11 may well represent one of the most significant interglacial highstand events of the past million years. Ocean volume changes charted from coastal exposures imply partial or complete melting ...
Notes on Hawaiian Snake Eels (Pisces: Ophichthidae), with Comments on Ophichthus bonaparti

McCosker, John E (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)

The 22 ophichthid eel species of the Hawaiian Islands (including Johnston and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) are reviewed, and a key to their identification is provided. New Hawaiian records of Indo-Pacific ...
Predators of the Invasive Mussel Musculista senhousia (Mollusca: Mytilidae)

Crooks, Jeffrey A (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)

Musculista senhousia (Benson in Cantor, 1842) is a soft sediment-dwelling mussel that has spread anthropogenically from its native Asia to North America, Australasia, and Europe. This byssal mat-forming species can ...
Redescription of the Indo-Pacific Scorpionfish Scorpaenopsis fowleri and Reallocation to the Genus Sebastapistes

Randall, John E; Poss, Stuart G (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)

The wide-ranging Indo-Pacific scorpionfish Scorpaenodes fowleri (Pietschmann), long placed in the genus Scorpaenopsis (largely because it lacks palatine teeth), is reclassified in the genus Sebastapistes. It is distinct ...
Reinstatement and Rediagnosis of Catapaguroides setosus and Description of a Second Hawaiian Species of the Genus (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridea: Paguridae)

McLaughlin, Patsy A; Pittman, Cory (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)

A species of the hermit crab genus Catapaguroides recently discovered in a sand-dwelling Halimeda community on the island of Maui, Hawaiian Islands, prompted a reexamination of the holotype of Catapaguroides setosus (Edmondson, ...
Reproductive Ecology of the Gobiid Fish Eviota abax at Nobeoka, Japan, with Notes on Geographic Variation

Taru, Masanori; Sunobe, Tomoki (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)

The reproductive behavior and spawning cycle of the gobiid fish Eviota abax were observed in a rocky tide pool at Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan. Both sexes maintained nonterritorial, overlapping home ranges. The spawnings took ...