Cercosporoid hyphomycetes from New Caledonia and some other South Pacific islands

Spiders from some Pacific Islands

KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPIDERS of the Pacific is largely the result of the work of Berland (1934, et. seqq.). He has published a number of papers dealing with the spiders of the New Caledonian and New Hebridean region; of Samoa; and of the Marquesas, Society, and Austral groups, and other islands in the southeastern Pacific. Recently I have completed a study of the spiders of Western Samoa (not yet p...

New records and new species of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia

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A new Emoia samoensis group lizard (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Cook Islands, South-central Pacific

The first published report of a large treeskink from Rarotonga, Cook Islands, appeared in 1988. The first museum voucher specimen was collected in 1984. Although this skink seems likely to be a recent arrival to the island of Rarotonga, it represents a unique member of the Emoia samoensis species group. We compare this population with other members of the E. samoensis group and describe the pop...

Four new species of Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) from the South Pacific islands of Fiji

During fieldwork in Fiji, four new species of Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) were discovered and are described herein: C. gregoryi M.A.Johnson, sp. nov., C. hispida M.A.Johnson, sp. nov., C. longifructosa M.A.Johnson, sp. nov., and C. waisaliensis M.A.Johnson, sp. nov. The addition of four new species brings the current number of Fijian Cyrtandra to 41 endemic species. Two of the four species are kno...

A mass stranding of seven Longman’s beaked whales (Indopacetus pacificus) in New Caledonia, South Pacific