Neither a buccinid nor a turrid: A new family of deep-sea snails for Belomitra P. Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Neogastropoda), with a review of Recent Indo-Pacific species

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3496 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
YURI I. KANTOR ◽  
NICOLAS PUILLANDRE ◽  
AUDREY RIVASSEAU ◽  
PHILIPPE BOUCHET
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Sulu Sea ◽  
Anal Ysis ◽  
New Family ◽  
Pacific Species

The new family Belomitridae is established for the deep-water buccinoid genus Belomitra P. Fischer, 1883, based onmorphological (shell and radulae) and molecular evidence. The rachiglossate radula is uniquely characterized by amulticuspid rachidian and lateral teeth with very long narrow bases and two small cusps closer to tip. Molecular anal-ysis of a reduced set of Buccinoidea did not resolve the group as a clade, but shows that Belomitridae forms a wellsupported clade within Buccinoidea. Species of Belomitra have adult sizes in the 7–53 mm range; they live in deepwater, mostly in the 500–2,000 meters range, at low and mid latitudes. Eleven valid species described from the Indo-Pacific were originally named in the families Buccinidae, Columbellidae, Cancellariidae, Volutidae, and Turridae.Fourteen new species are described: Belomitra nesiotica n. sp. (Society Islands to Tonga and Fiji in 580–830 m), B.bouteti n. sp. (Society and Tuamotu Islands in 430–830 m), B. subula n. sp. (Solomon Islands to Vanuatu in 760–1110m), B. caudata n. sp. (Sulu Sea in 2300 m), B. gymnobela n. sp. (South Pacific, eastern Indonesia and Philippines in780–2040 m), B. hypsomitra n. sp. (Fiji in 392–407 m), B. brachymitra n. sp. (Fiji in 395–540 m), B. comitas n. sp.(Madagascar and Philippines in 1075–1110 m), B. minutula (Coral Sea in 490 m), B. granulata n. sp. (New Caledoniain 105–860 m), B. reticulata n. sp. (Tonga and Fiji to New Caledonia in 395–656 m), B. decapitata n. sp. (IndianOcean and New Caledonia in 3680–4400 m), B. admete n. sp. (off Sri Lanka in 2540 m), and B. radula n. sp. (Madagascar in 367–488 m).Key-words: Buccinoidea, molecular phylogeny, morphology, anatomy, radula, deep-water fauna

Leptoglossus australis. [Distribution map].

1968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Mariana Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
Caroline Islands ◽  
New Hebrides

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Leptoglossus australis (F.) (=L. membranaceus (F.), L. bidentatus Montr.) (Hemipt, Coreidae) (Leaf-footed Plant Bug). Host Plants: Cucurbits, Citrus and legumes. Information is given on the geographical distribution in ASIA, Andaman Islands, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Philippine Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, AFRICA, Angola, Annobon Islands, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Dahomey, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Rodriguez Islands, Rwanda, Saõ Tomé, Senegal, Seychelle, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Upper Volta, AUSTRALASIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, Caroline Islands, Fiji, Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Papua & New Guinea, Western Samoa, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Wallis Islands, Irian Jaya, China.

Maruca testulalis. [Distribution map].

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Maruca Testulalis ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Ryukyu Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
New Hebrides

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Maruca testulalis[Maruca vitrata] (Geyer) (including M. t. amboinalis Felder) (Lep., Pyralidae) (Bean Pod Borer, Mung Moth). Host Plants: Cajanus, Canavalia, Dolichos, Phaseolus, Vigna and other legumes. Information is given on the geographical distribution in ASIA, Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China, Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Maldive Islands, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Ryukyu Islands, Sikkim, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, North AFRICA, Angola, Burundi, Dahomey, Fernando Po, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, AUSTRALASIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, Marianas Islands, Marquesas Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, American, & Western Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Tubuai, Tonga, Irian Jaya, NORTH AMERICA, Mexico, CENTRAL AMERICA and WEST INDIES, SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Tarophagus proserpina. [Distribution map].

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Ryukyu Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Caroline Islands ◽  
New Hebrides ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Tarophagus proserpina (Kirk.) (including T. p. australis Fennah) (Megamelus proserpina Kirk.) (Hemipt., Delphacidae) (Taro Leafhopper). Host Plants: Colocasia spp., Alocasia spp. Information is given on the geographical distribution in ASIA, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Ryukyu Islands, AUSTRALASIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, Caroline Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Niue, Samoa, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Wallis Islands.

Anomis flava. [Distribution map].

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Marquesas Islands ◽  
New Hebrides ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Upper Volta

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Anomis flava (F.) (Cosmophila flava[Anomis flava] F., C. indica Guer.) (Lep., Noctuidae) (Cotton semi-looper). Host Plants: Cotton, okra, Abutilon, tomato. Information is given on the geographical distribution in ASIA, Burma, Cambodia, China, Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, South Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, North AFRICA, Angola, Benin, Cameroun, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Upper Volta, Zaire, Zambia, AUSTRALASIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Marianas Islands, Marquesas Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Irian Jaya.

scholarly journals The Orchids of Tonga, Niue, and the Cook Islands

Lankesteriana ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Cribb ◽  
Arthur Whistler
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Cook Islands ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Present Book ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Pacific Species

Orchids are one of the largest families of flowering plants in the Pacific region, especially in the tropics. Despite the remoteness of Tonga, Niue, and the Cook Islands, orchids have reached them in some numbers. Both terrestrial and epiphytic genera are well represented in the floras of these distant but neighboring archipelagos. Most of the species are found elsewhere in the Pacific, particularly in Fiji, Samoa, and the Society Islands. The affinities of these orchids can be traced to New Guinea and the adjacent archipelagos. New Guinea, with an estimated 3000 species that make it one of the richest orchid floras in the world, is a fertile source of seed for the scattered islands that lie to its east and southeast. The orchids appear to have reached Tonga, Niue, and the Cook Islands in recent times. Only two species, Habenaria amplifolia from Rarotonga and Robiquetia tongaensis from Tonga, are endemic to the islands covered in the present book, and both are closely related to more widespread Pacific species. This guide constitutes the fourth of a series of orchid floristic treatments that have so far covered Vanuatu (Lewis & Cribb 1989), the Solomon Islands and Bougainville (Lewis & Cribb 1991), and Samoa (Cribb & Whistler 1996). A recent, excellent and detailed account of the Fijian orchid flora (Kores 1991) has also been a valuable source for those interested in Pacific islands orchids. These accounts have generated renewed interest in the orchid floras of those archipelagos, leading to new discoveries and re-interpretations of several species. We hope that this small guide will likewise bring a renewal of interest in not only the orchids, but also the floras of these islands as a whole. 

Spodoptera mauritia. [Distribution map].

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Christmas Island ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Norfolk Island

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Spodoptera mauritia (Boisd.) including S. m. acronyctoides (Guen.)) Lep., Noctuidae) (Paddy Swarming Caterpillar or Rice Army Worm). Host Plants: Rice, maize, sugar cane and other Gramineae. Information is given on the geographical distribution in ASIA, Andaman Islands, Bahrein Island, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling Island, India, Indonesia, Iran, Laos, Malaysia, Maldive Islands, Pakistan, Philippines, Sikkim, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, AFRICA, Comoro Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, AUSTRALASIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS, Austral Islands-see Tubuai Islands., Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Gilbert Islands, Hawaii, Lord Howe Island, Marianas Islands, Marquesas Islands, Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Niue, Norfolk Island, Papua and New Guinea, Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tubuai, Irian Jaya.

Aonidiella aurantii. [Distribution map].

1968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Fruit Trees ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Aonidiella Aurantii ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
St Helena

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Aonidiella aurantii (Mask.) (Hemipt., Coccoidea) (California Red Scale). Host Plants: Citrus; various deciduous fruit trees, wide range of shrubs and flowering plants. Information is given on the geographical distribution in EUROPE (excl. USSR), Crete, Dodecanese, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Sardinia, Spain, ASIA (excl. USSR), Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, China, Cyprus, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippine Islands, Saudi Arabia, South Arabian, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Yemen Arab Republic, USSR, AFRICA, Algeria, Angola, Canary Islands, Chagos Archipelago, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Réunion, Rhodesia, St. Helena, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, AUSTRALASIA, and PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua & New Guinea, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Wallis Islands, Irian Jaya, NORTH AMERICA, Mexico, U.S.A., CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES, West Indies, SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay.

Art. XII.—The Modern Languages of Oceania

1887 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-392
Author(s):  
R. N. Cust
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Present Knowledge ◽  
German Language ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Bible Translations ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Great Portion

The annexation of New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the Society Islands to France ; of the Fiji Archipelago to Great Britain; of a great portion of the Solomon Islands to Germany; and the tripartite division of New Guinea and its adjacent Islands between Great Britain, Germany, and Holland, have given a startling prominence to the remote Islands at our Antipodes. We hear sad stories of Native Races, which at the time of Capt. Cook in 1770 were strong and numerous, dwindling away under the socalled European civilization of intoxicating liquors, infectious diseases, and wholesale man-stealing, the entire credit of which last attaches itself to the English Colonies of Queensland and Fiji. Already the languages of Tasmania, Chatham Island, and the Ladrones, have disappeared with the entire races who once used them. Others are rapidly proceeding in the same direction. As in North America, so in Oceania, the Bible-Translations will remain as the monument of a form of speech, which no longer floats on the lips of men. Before it is too late, I throw together a succinct account of the languages now spoken. In the course of the Session I gave a vivâ, voce address on the subject, which appeared to excite interest, and at the Congress of Orientalists held at Vienna last September, I read an address in the German language on our present knowledge of the Languages of Oceania, but gave no detail of names of languages or authorities.

New genera, new species and new records of Indo-West Pacific spider crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Epialtidae: Majoidea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2025 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES ◽  
PETER K. L. NG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
New Records ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Western Pacific

Three new genera and five new species of epialtid majoid crabs are described from deep water in the western Pacific. Two new species of Oxypleurodon Miers, 1886: O. sanctaeclausi n. sp. and O. annulatum n. sp. are described from the Philippines. New specimens of the rare Oxypleurodon carbunculum (Rathbun, 1906) from the Hawaiian Islands are also recorded. Three new genera are established: Garthinia n. gen. for G. disica n. sp. from the Solomon Islands; Guinotinia n. gen. for G. cordis n. sp. from New Caledonia and G. lehouarnoi n. sp. from Fiji and Tonga; and Laubierinia n. gen. for Sphenocarcinus nodosus Rathbun, 1916, and Rochinia carinata Griffin & Tranter, 1986.

Diocalandra taitense. [Distribution map].

1968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
New Hebrides ◽  
Line Islands

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Diocalandra taitense (Guéer.) (= D. taitensis Guér.) (Col., Curculionidae) (Tahiti Coconut Weevil). Host Plant: Coconut palm. Information is given on the geographical distribution in AFRICA, Madagascar, AUSTRALASIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS, Cook Islands, Fiji, Gambier Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Hawaii, Line Islands, Marquesas, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Niue, Papua & New Guinea, American Samoa, Western Samoa, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuamotu Islands, Wallis Islands, Irian Jaya.

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