With the adition of Anchoa walkeri, the eastern Pacific members of the family Engraulidae are represented by over 30 recognizable species. They are fairly common along both coasts of the Americas in temperate and tropical ...

Rotuma Island lies in the central Pacific Ocean, at the meeting point of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Its botany had not been explored until the writer made an expedition to it in 1938. Two new species peculiar to ...

The great expanses of open ocean that separate the Hawaiian Islands from the major continental land masses of North America and Asia resulted in the evolution of a number of unique landbirds. Unfortunately, a higher ...

Predators and parasites on the living tissues of stony (scleractinian) corals include bony and cartilaginous fishes, asteroids, crustaceans (cyclopoid copepods, cirripedes, and brachyuran crabs) , polychaetes, and ...

At present five species are known in the genus Rhodopeltis, which belongs to the red algal order, Cryptonemiales. Of these, Rhodopeltis australis was first found in Australia, and the other four species, R. borealis, ...