Pacific Science Volume 24, Number 3, 1970

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24:3 Table of Contents - Pacific Science

(University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)
The Biology of the Marquesan Sardine, Sardinella marquesensis

Nakamura, Eugene L; Wilson, Robert C (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 ...
Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure of the Solomon Islands as Revealed by Seismic Refraction Survey of November-December 1966

Furumoto, AS; Hussong, DM; Campbell, JF; Sutton, GH; Malahoff, A; Rose, JC; Woollard, GP (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

A seismic refraction survey was carried out in the waters around the Solomon Islands during November and December 1966. Three ships were involved in the survey: two, stationed at the end points of the traverses, acted ...
Geology of the Solomon and New Hebrides Islands, as Part of the Melanesian Re-entrant, Southwest Pacific

Coleman, PJ (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

The Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides Archipelago are examples of fractured island "arcs," autochthonous geological systems, in which pattern s of straight-line fractures and vertical and horizontal movement of ...
The Geology of Tofua Island, Tonga

Bauer, Glenn R (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

Tofua Island is an oval, steep-sided composite volcano, 5 miles by 6 miles in diameter, the summit of which has collapsed to form a caldera. Within the caldera, Lofia cone is still active. Four unit s have been mapped: ...
Lichens from the Southern Alps, New Zealand: Records from Phipps Peak, The Two Thumbs, and the Tasman Valley

Fineran, BA; Dodge, CW (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

The taxonomy, ecology, and regional distribution of lichens in New Zealand are imperfectly known (Galloway, 1966, 1968a, 1968b; Martin, 1966, 1968). In surveying the scattered literature, Galloway (1966) found that ...
Materials for a Monograph of Freycinetia Gaud. (Pandanaceae) XIII A New Species from Ternate Island, Moluccas

Stone, Benjamin C (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

Among the rich collections of Pandanaceae in the herb aria of Bogor (BO) and Leiden (L) are numerous specimens of Freycinetia collected in Ternate by V. M. A. Beguin. The greater part of these represent a species which ...
The Natural History of Haliclona ecbasis de Laubenfels, a Siliceous Sponge of California

Fell, Paul E (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

Little information concerning the haliclonids of the Pacific Coast of the United States is presently available. De Laubenfels (1933) described briefly several haliclonids of California, but gave no account of their ...
A New Argentinid Fish from Hawaii

Cohen, Daniel M (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

The argentinid fish described in this paper was collected by Mr. Paul Struhsaker of the University of Hawaii during the course of his investigations on the biology of Hawaiian demersal fish and shrimp populations. ...
Paradiscogaster eniwetokensis n. sp. (Fellodistomidae: Trematoda) from Eniwetok, Marshall Islands

Martin, WE; Hammerich, Brian (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

Paradiscogaster eniwetohensis n. sp. is described. It was found in the intestines of seven of nine specimens of the fish Chaetodon strigallgulus (Gmelin) collected at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands.
Some Implications of Precocious Flowering in Collospermum

Moore, Lucy B (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

In heteroblastic development the juvenile and adult phases of a plant have the same genotype but the phenotypes are different, and Cook (1968, p. 97), noting that such phenotypic plasticity has undoubtedly led to a ...
Some Shoot and Cone Characteristics of Taiwan Red Pine

Lanner, Ronald M; Hinkle, EH (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

Taiwan red pine (Pinus taiwanensis Hayata) is endemic to the island of Taiwan, or Formosa (Li, 1963). It is one of the so-called uninodal pines - that is, its winter bud elongates to form an unbranched axis bearing ...
Successional Trends in the Coastal and Lowland Forest of Mauna Loa and Kilauea Volcanoes, Hawaii

Atkinson, IAE (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

Three trends in forest succession are described from the coastal and lowland lava flows (<1,000 feet) of Mauna Loa and Kilauea in Hawaii. All begin on bare rock in a region of high rainfall (75 to 150 inches). One trend ...
Toxin Secretion and Tail Autotomy by Irritated Oxynoe panamensis (Opisthobranchiata; Sacoglossa)

Lewin, Ralph A (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

The green sacoglossan gastropod Oxynoe panamensis occurs in mangrove swamps on the coasts of Baja Californi a, Mexico, apparently feeding exclusively on the green siphonaceous alga Caulerpa sertularioides . When irritated, ...
Transfer of Toxic Algal Substances in Marine Food Chains

Doty, Maxwell S; Aguilar-Santos, Gertrudes (University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-07)

Alcoholic and ether extracts of obligate herbivores, omnivores, and detritus feeders common on Caulerpa or in its communities were found, via comparative, and sometimes quantitative, thin-layer chromatography, to ...