Contributions to the Knowledge of the Alpheid Shrimp of the Pacific Ocean Part III. On a Small Collection from Onotoa, Gilbert Islands'

THIS PAPER reports on a small collection of snapping shrimp made at Onotoa in the southern Gilbert Islands during the summer of 1951 by the members of the Coral Atoll Research team during the investigation of the total ecology of the atoll under the sponsorship of the Pacific Science Board with funds from the Office of Naval Research (Contract NR 160-165 ). Members of the team working on the ecology of marine animals were Dr. Preston E. Cloud , Jr. of the U. S. Geological Service, Dr. Donald W. Strasburg, Dr. John E. Randall , and myself. The latter three at the time were with the University of Hawaii . The study of these shrimp was initiated under a grant administered by the U. S. National Museum and the Pacific Science Board under a contract between the Office of Naval Research, Biology Branch, and the National Academy of Sciences (NR 160-175); some help in the final phases of the study was gained through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF-G-1754). I also wish to acknowledge the aid that was given me in the field by Drs . Cloud, Strasburg, and Randall. In order to save space and time in this paper, as in the second study, instead of giving complete synonymy and bibliographic references for each species, reference will be made to the earlier papers of the series whenever a species has been listed before . Type specimens of the new species described in this paper will be deposited in the