Structure and temporal fluctuations of two intertidal seagrass-bed communities in New Caledonia (SW Pacific Ocean)

Heteroconger fugax sp. nov. (Congridae: Heterocongrinae) is described from a single specimen collected from Amami-oshima island, Japan. The new species is most similar to Heteroconger tomberua Castle & Randall 1999, known from Fiji and New Caledonia, in having a remarkably slender body with numerous small spots and a vertebral count close to 200. However, it can be distinguished from H. tomberua by the presence of a large distinct white blotch on the opercle; more numerous, dense spots over the entire head, including lips; ground color of body uniformly cream, without microscopic melanophores; numerous small conical cirri on the chin; and dorsal-fin origin located more posteriorly to appressed pectoral-fin tip. A survey of underwater photographs of Heteroconger on photographic database revealed H. fugax to be widely distributed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, from the Ryukyu Archipelago to Borneo.

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A record ofRandiellafrom New Caledonia, the first known occurrence of the marine interstitial family Randiellidae (Annelida; Oligochaeta) in the South Pacific Ocean

Journal of Natural History ◽

10.1080/00222939700770931 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 31 (12) ◽

pp. 1745-1750 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

C. Erséus

Keyword(s):

Pacific Ocean ◽

New Caledonia ◽

South Pacific ◽

The South ◽

South Pacific Ocean

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Dissolved copper isotope biogeochemistry in the Tasman Sea, SW Pacific Ocean

Marine Chemistry ◽

10.1016/j.marchem.2014.06.009 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 165 ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Claire M. Thompson ◽

Michael J. Ellwood

Keyword(s):

Pacific Ocean ◽

Copper Isotope ◽

Sw Pacific ◽

Tasman Sea

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Dissolved copper speciation in the Tasman Sea, SW Pacific Ocean

Marine Chemistry ◽

10.1016/j.marchem.2014.06.003 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 164 ◽

pp. 84-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

C.M. Thompson ◽

M.J. Ellwood ◽

S.G. Sander

Keyword(s):

Pacific Ocean ◽

Sw Pacific ◽

Copper Speciation ◽

Tasman Sea

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New species of the genus Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898 (Pseudomelatomidae, Conoidea) from the Western Pacific Ocean

European Journal of Taxonomy ◽

10.5852/ejt.2017.304 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mauro Morassi ◽

Andrea Nappo ◽

Antonio Bonfitto

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Pacific Ocean ◽

New Caledonia ◽

The Philippines ◽

Western Pacific Ocean ◽

Type Specimens ◽

Fiji Islands ◽

The Family ◽

First Time ◽

The Western Pacific

Twelve new species are assigned to the genus Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898 in the family Pseudomelatomidae Morrison, 1966 and herein described: O. hadra sp. nov., O. neocaledonica sp. nov., O. rubiginostoma sp. nov and O. tropispira sp. nov. from New Caledonia; O. boucheti sp. nov., O. nereidum sp. nov. and O. sororcula sp. nov. from the Fiji Islands; O. xantholineata sp. nov. from the Solomon to the Fiji Islands; O. crassivaricosa sp. nov. from Fiji to Hiva Oa Island (Marquesas Archipelago); O. philpoppei sp. nov. from the Philippines but also reported from the Fiji Islands; O. elegans sp. nov. from the Fiji Islands and O. philippinensis sp. nov. from the Philippines. New data on O. carnicolor (Hervier, 1896) are provided. Otitoma mitra (Kilburn, 1986), from Southern Mozambique, is here considered a synonym of O. cyclophora (Deshayes, 1863). Drillia batjanensis Schepman, 1913, previously assigned to the genus Maoritomella Powell, 1942 in the family Borsoniidae Bellardi, 1875, is here assigned to the genus Otitoma. Photographs of the holotype of Drillia batjanensis are provided for the first time. In addition, color photographs of the type specimens of the following species are provided: Drillia kwandangensis Schepman, 1913, D. timorensis Schepman, 1913 and Mitrellatoma mitra Kilburn, 1986.

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New sciaphilic plakinids (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha) from the Central-Western Pacific

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4466 (1) ◽

pp. 8 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ANAÍRA LAGE ◽

GUILHERME MURICY ◽

CÉSAR RUIZ ◽

THIERRY PÉREZ

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Pacific Ocean ◽

Evolutionary Biology ◽

New Caledonia ◽

Western Pacific ◽

Marquesas Islands ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Pacific Ocean ◽

Submarine Caves

The sponge class Homoscleromorpha is a key model for the evolutionary biology of the Metazoa but its diversity remains poorly known. Here we describe six new species of the homoscleromorph family Plakinidae found in shaded habitats (submarine caves, tunnels and overhangs) of New Caledonia and Marquesas Islands, Central-Western Pacific. The new species belong to four genera: Corticium (Corticium vaceleti sp. nov.), Plakina (Plakina finispinata sp. nov.), Plakinastrella (Plakinastrella osculifera sp. nov., Plakinastrella nicoleae sp. nov. and Plakinastrella pseudolopha sp. nov.), and Plakortis (Plakortis ruetzleri sp. nov.). Plakinastrella pseudolopha sp. nov. has a novel spicule type called here ‘pseudolophose spicules’. The diversity of Homoscleromorpha is raised to 50 species in the Pacific Ocean and 120 spp. worldwide.

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Poecilostomatoid Copepods associated with the Scleractinian coral Acropora in the tropical western Pacific Ocean

Invertebrate Systematics ◽

10.1071/it9930805 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 805 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

AG Humes

Keyword(s):

Pacific Ocean ◽

Scleractinian Coral ◽

New Records ◽

New Caledonia ◽

Marshall Islands ◽

Western Pacific ◽

Western Pacific Ocean ◽

New Genera ◽

Tropical Western Pacific ◽

Enewetak Atoll

Nine new lichomolgid copepods, including two new genera, Ecphysarion and Unicispina, are described, all associated with various species of the scleractinian genus Acropora in New Caledonia, at Ceram and Obi in the Moluccas, and at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands: Schedomolgus idanus, S. majusculus, S. insignellus, S. exiliculus, Scyphuliger eumorphus, S. aristoides, Ecphysarion ampullulum, E. spinulatum, and Unicispina latigenitalis. New records are given for Ecphysarion lobophomm (Humes & Ho, 1968), comb. nov., Scyphuliger concavipes Humes, 1991, S. manifestus Humes, 1991, and S. tenuatus (Humes, 1990).

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