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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-04)Feeding habits of Scomber japonicus larvae in the central part of the Gulf of California during April 1984 and 1985 are described and compared. Satellite images of temperature and chlorophyll monthly average showed ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)In this paper the ambivalent character of the Enlightenment ideology that was employed to justify the Pacific voyages of the late eighteenth century is explored. Parallels are drawn between the Spanish Christian ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)European explorers and naturalists made many contributions to the discovery and description of New Zealand's natural history. These contributions are examined with respect to the scientific traditions of England, France, ...
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A New High-Elevation Bavayia (Reptilia: Squamata: Diplodactylidae) from Northeastern New Caledonia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)A new species in the diplodactylid gecko genus Bavayia is described from the northern ranges of Province Nord, New Caledonia. The new gecko is a gracile, large-bodied form distinguished from its congeners by the morphology ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)The spionid polychaete Boccardia proboscidea Hartman, 1940 was introduced to an oyster culture farm at Keahole, Hawai'i, with a shipment of Ostrea edulis from Maine. Oysters were heavily infested with adult worms, and ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-10)The annual, endemic, coastal herb Centaurium sebaeoides is the only native Hawaiian species in the gentian family. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed it as Endangered under the Endangered Species Act on 29 ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-10)Eight species of Indo-Pacific morays, including three new species, are described and discussed. Most are plain brown and have unpatterned body coloration (one with small dark spots); they are small to moderate-sized ...
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Nutritional Quality of Leaves and Unripe Fruit Consumed as Famine Foods by the Flying Foxes of Samoa (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-10)Many tropical herbivores alter their diets throughout the year in response to different levels of food availability. Fruit bats, including Pteropus samoensis Peale and Pteropus tonganus Quoy & Gaimard, are phytophagous species ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-10)The first occurrence of the rare viper shark, Trigonognathus kabeyai, from the central Pacific Ocean is reported. Morphometries are compared between this specimen and the type specimens from Japan, and this specimen differs ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-04)Sophora comprises 45-50 species of worldwide distribution, but no general proposal as to the evolution of this group has been put forth. We used cladistic relationships of the quinolizidine alkaloids (matrine, ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-04)Subfossilleaf fragments of giant swamp taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) were recovered from archaeological contexts dating as early as A.D. 1451 (mean date) on Henderson Island (24 0 22' S, 1280 19' W), Pitcairn group-a ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-10)The terrestrial flora of the Rotuma island group consists of over 500 species of indigenous and introduced plants. Although the environment of these islands has been highly modified by the Rotuman people, areas of ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)Ramphotyphlops becki (Tanner, 1948), restricted to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, is resurrected from the synonymy of Ramphotyphlops willeyi (Boulenger, 1900), from the Loyalty Islands, on the basis of consistent ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)A new species of lizard in the genus Marmorosphax is described from between 900 and llOO m on Mt. Ouin in the south of New Caledonia. It is the second species of skink discovered in recent times that is restricted to ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)Scanning electron microscope (SEM) studies of tracheary elements of one species each of Sadleria (Blechnaceae), Alsophila (Cyatheaceae), Cibotium, and Dicksonia (Dicksoniaceae) showed that metaxylem of both roots and ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-10)Tracheary elements of three species (Mecodium recurvum, Vandenboschia devallioides, and Callistopteris baldwinii) (two epiphytic, one terrestrial) representing three genera of Hymenophyllaceae were studied with scanning ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-10)In Potamocorbula amurensis time for development to the straight-hinge larval stage is 48 hr at 15°C. Potamocorbula amurensis settles at a shell length of approximately 135 um 17 to 19 days after fertilization. Our ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-10)We evaluated the utility of whole-rock amino acid racemization as a method for the stratigraphic correlation and dating of carbonate sediments in the Hawaiian Islands. D-alloisoleucine/L-isoleucine (A/I) ratios were ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-04)Ceratothoa angulata (Richardson) was found in the mouth of Dussumier's halfbeak, Hyporhamphus dussumieri; Cymothoa bychowskyi Avdeev in the gill chamber of the red cornetfish, Fistularia petimba; and Elthusa raynaudii ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)Two new species of the diplodactylid gecko Bavayia are described from Mt. Koghis, Province Sud, New Caledonia. One species is a large, characteristically colored representative of the B. sauvagii complex. It is sympatric with ...