Pacific Science Volume 54, Number 1, 2000

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54:1 Table of Contents - Pacific Science

(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)
Abstracts of Papers: Twenty-Fourth Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium, 15-16 April 1999

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Conservation Status and Research on the Fabulous Green Sphinx of Kaua'i, Tinostoma smaragditis (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), Including Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the Diverse Mesic Forests of Kaua'i, Hawai'i

Heddle, ML; Wood, KR; Asquith, A; Gillespie, RG (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)

In 1895, a moth was captured in a mountain home in Makaweli, Kaua'i, that would captivate and elude entomologists for the next century. Tinostoma smaragditis (Meyrick), aptly nicknamed the "Fabulous Green Sphinx of ...
Description of a New Deep-Water Calcareous Sponge (Porifera: Calcarea) from Northern California

Duplessis, Kirk; Reiswig, Henry M (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)

A new species, Sycon escanabensis Duplessis & Reiswig, is described from material retrieved by submersible from 3500 m depth in the Escanaba Trough, central Gorda Ridge, off northern California. The species differs from ...
Distribution, Recruitment, and Growth of the Black-Lip Pearl Oyster, Pinctada margaritifera, in Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i

Rodgers, S Ku'ulei; Sims, Neil A; Sarver, Dale J; Cox, Evelyn F (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)

Stocks of Hawaiian black-lip pearl oysters, Pinetada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758), appear to have been depleted by overfishing and environmental degradation. Permanent survey transect sites were set up in Kane'ohe Bay ...
A New High-Elevation Bavayia (Reptilia: Squamata: Diplodactylidae) from Northeastern New Caledonia

Bauer, Aaron M; Jones, Julia PG; Sadlier, Ross A (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 ...
A New Record of the Polychaete Boccardia proboscidea (Family Spionidae), Imported to Hawai'i with Oysters

Bailey-Brock, Julie H (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 ...
Reexamination of an Anomalous Distribution: Resurrection of Ramphotyphlops becki (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)

Shea, Glenn M; Wallach, Van (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 ...
The Scincid Lizard Genus Marmorosphax (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific: Description of a New Species Restricted to High-Altitude Forest in Province Sud

Sadlier, Ross A; Bauer, Aaron M (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 ...
SEM Studies on Vessels in Ferns. 16. Pacific Tree Ferns (Blechnaceae, Cyatheaceae, Dicksoniaceae)

Carlquist, Sherwin; Schneider, Edward L (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 ...
Two New Gecko Species Allied to Bavayia sauvagii and Bavayia cyclura (Reptilia: Squamata: Diplodactylidae) from New Caledonia

Wright, Jennifer L; Bauer, Aaron M; Sadlier, Ross A (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 ...
Two New Species of Spiochaetopterus (Polychaeta: Chaetopteridae) from Okinawa, Japan, with Notes on Pacific Spiochaetopterus

Nishi, Eijiroh; Bhaud, Michel (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-01)

Two new species of Spiochaetopterus are described from recently collected material from sandy substrates at Bise Beach and Sesoko Island in northern Okinawa, southern Japan. These two new species, Spiochaetopterus okinawaensis ...