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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-04)The Doridacea form a conspicuous element of the shallow-water molluscan fauna along both tropic and temperate shores. The 50 species described here from the Hawaiian Islands comprise approximately 5 per cent of the ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-04)During a study of the decapod Crustacea of the San Diego region, a new species of pagurid crab of the genus Pylopagurus was encountered. The following account is a description of this species, including a comparison ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-04)A new species of archiannelid, Saccocirrus eroticus, from shell gravel from Orcas Island, Washington, U.S.A., is described. The species is characterized by being 1 to 2.2 cm long when adult and comprising up to 125 body ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-04)The structure of and growth forms and habits exhibited by the New Zealand rain forest are described and compared with those of lowland tropical rain forest. Theories relating to the frequent regeneration failure of the ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-04)The ionic and osmotic regulative capacities of crustacean species have been described by a number of investigators (see reviews by Krogh, 1939; Robertson, 1953, 1960; Ramsay, 1954; Beadle, 1957; Lockwood, 1962, 1964; ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-04)In the coelenterate seapen colony, Leioptilus guerneyi, two types of minute spicules have been found; these give the characteristic chitosan tests indicative of chitin. Chitin is essentially unknown in the Anthozoa. The ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-04)Hawaii is one of the volcanic areas of the world. Volcanic ash is widespread throughout the area, and many soils contain ash as part of their parent material. The soils derived from volcanic ash contain predominantly ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)The crustacean X organ-sinus gland complex has been extensively studied and shown to regulate such diverse activities as molting, integumentary and retinal pigment movements, blood glucose levels, ovarian development, ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)The echinoid Evechinuls chloroticus (Val.) provides shelter and food for the clingfish Dellichthys morelandi Briggs. The latter appears to be attracted to the echinoid by visual recognition.
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)Selective fishing of the deep scattering layer, defined by echosounder recordings, with an automatic opening and closing trawl has helped to define the diurnal vertical migration and feeding behavior of Lampanyctus ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)Relatively synchronized samplings of man-made structures of known but varying ages have been used to generate a growth curve for Terebratalia. Modes indicative of the first four or five year classes were recognized, and ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)Solanum is an enormous genus, and it is represented in the Hawaiian flora by endemic, adventive, and cultivated species. Below are presented descriptions of two new endemic species.
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)Titaniferous Ferruginous latosols are an important group of Hawaiian soils. They have developed by pedogenetic weathering of the volcanic materials of basic and ultrabasic lava flows and their associated pyroclastic ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)The term "pothole" has been applied to a variety of depressions by many writers. The term is used here to describe depressions which are abraded and scoured by water and grinding tools under the influence of currents ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)Two SPECIES of marine tardigrades have been reported from the Pacific coast of North America. Schuster and Grigarick (1965) studied Echiniscoides sigismundi Schultze, 1865, from algae and barnacles. This species is ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)While I was a scientific observer for the United States aboard a Japanese fishing vessel in the North Pacific Ocean, I observed two sea urchins living within the cavity of the air bladder of the bull kelp, Nereocystis ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)The predator-prey relationships between the California scorpionfish Scorpaena guttata Girard and the octopus Octopus bimaculatus Verrill were examined by observations of behavior in aquariums. California scorpionfish eat ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)The genus Pandanus has been much investigated by the botanists resident in the Philippines, but a few novelties have come to light. The author's studies of this large and intricate genus have been supported by grants ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)Continuing study of botanical collections made in recent years under the auspices of the Fiji Department of Agriculture has indicated the occurrence of various hitherto undescribed species of flowering plants in Fiji. ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1969-07)In recent years collections made by staff members of the Fiji Department of Agriculture have substantially added to the available study material of Fijian plants, permitting more adequate knowledge of many species and ...