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(University of Hawaii Press, 1979-07)Terebrid gastropods of the genus Hastula are found in great abundance on fine-sand beaches throughout the tropics. Hastula inconstans, a species common to surf beaches in the Hawaiian Islands, is the first hastula ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1975-07)Although gastropods of the family Terebridae are common in subtidal sand communities throughout the tropics, Terebra gouldi, a species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, is the first terebrid for which a complete life ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1948-07)
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)Data and samples obtained in the Marquesas Islands from 1954 to 1960 form the basis of this report. Various morphological traits of the Marquesan sardine, Sardinella marquesensis, are described, and measures of their ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1966-01)
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1974-10)Prosthiostomum (Prosthiostomum) sp., a species of polyclad flatworm yet to be described, is an obligate ectoparasitic symbiont of the hermatypic coral Montipora. Field and laboratory studies have demonstrated an ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-10)Lake Te Rotonui, a shallow depression lake in the center of Mitiaro Island, southern Cook Islands, contains freshwater eels despite having no surface connection to the sea. During a survey of the eel population in ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1981-01)A. peculiar circumoral organ in a pelagic bolitaenid octopus luminesced brilliantly when treated with H2O2. This is the first confirmed luminescent organ In an octopus. Similar organs are found only in females of Eledonella ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1989-10)Concentrations of chlorophyll a (chl a), particulate carbon (PC), and particulate nitrogen (PN) measured on a weekly basis in the picoplankton and nano-plus-microplankton size fractions over a 2-yr period from 1986 ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1982-07)The mechanical properties of the dorsal aorta of three cephalopod mollusks, Nautilus pompilius, Nototodarus sloani, and Sepia latimanus, were investigated by in vitro inflations of isolated arterial segments. As ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1993-01)A survey of seed and seedling morphology of the three Hawaiian species of Vaccinium sect. Macropelma (V. calycinum Smith, V. den tatum Smith, and V. reticulatum Smith) revealed that seed shape, size, and seed coat ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1968-04)
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1950-01)
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1984-04)About 1300 specimens of birds have been taken on the seven islands that constitute American Samoa in the southwestern Pacific Ocean; about 1200 specimens representing 43 species were examined. Information on the biology ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2001-07)The black coral fishery in Hawai'i has been sustainable for the past 40 yr. The fishery began in 1958, shortly after its discovery off Lahaina, Maui, by Jack Ackerman and Larry Windley, who later formed the company ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 2005-07)Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) was positively identified in the waters around New Caledonia from two strandings, one live sighting, and two rostra collected from the seafloor. This is the only species ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1981-01)Bodianus prognathus, a new species, is described from Fanning Atoll, Line Islands, Central Pacific. It is distinct from its congeners by having an extremely elongate snout. It resembles B. diana in color pattern.
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1988)Mate preference experiments were conducted between males from two populations of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, to investigate the effect of body size on mating success. The results of the experiment indicate ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2010-04)Body and feather mass data are important in avian studies and are required for determining things such as body condition and energetic carrying capacity. There are 12 subspecies of Common Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus), ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1966-10)Rectal temperatures of 23 species of Malaysian mammals were recorded during the course of an intensive mark-recapture program in rain forest. Repeated capture allowed repetitive readings for many individuals over ...