scholarly journals STIPHODON JULIENI, A NEW SPECIES OF FRESHWATER GOBY (TELEOSTEI: GOBIOIDEI: SICYDIINAE) FROM RAPA, FRENCH POLYNESIA.

2002 ◽  
pp. 161-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. KEITH ◽  
R. E. WATSON ◽  
G. MARQUET
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Freshwater Goby ◽  
A New Species

Rhinogobius maculagenys, A new species of freshwater goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Hunan, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4476 (1) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
QIANQIAN WU ◽  
XUEJIAN DENG ◽  
YANJIE WANG ◽  
YONG LIU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Caudal Fin ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Freshwater Goby ◽  
Single Spine ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Bright Blue

A new freshwater goby, Rhinogobius maculagenys sp. nov., was collected from Hunan Province in Southern China. This species can be distinguished from all congeners by a combination of the following features: first dorsal fin with 6 spines; second dorsal fin with a single spine and 7–9 segmented rays; anal fin with a single spine and 6–8 segmented rays; pectoral fin with 16 segmented rays; 32–34 longitudinal scales; 9–13 transverse scales; 11+16=27 vertebrae; pore ω1 missing; head and body yellowish brown; cheek and opercle yellowish brown with over 30 small orange spots, branchiostegal membrane yellow with over 10 small orange spots in males and white and spotless in females; first dorsal fin trapezoidal in males and nearly semicircular in females, with large bright blue blotch in front of second spine; spines 4 and 5 longest, rear tip extending to base of second branched ray of second dorsal fin in males when adpressed, but just reaching or not reaching anterior margin of second dorsal fin in females; caudal fin with 5–6 vertical rows of brown spots; flank with several longitudinal rows of blackish-brown spots; and belly pale white.

The missing link: Rhyncogonus Sharp in the Gambier Islands (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Rhyncogonini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4908 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-416
Author(s):  
THIBAULT RAMAGE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
A New Species

The genus Rhyncogonus Sharp, 1885, is represented in French Polynesia by 65 species found in the Austral, Marquesas, Society and Tuamotu archipelagos. Hitherto unknown from the fifth archipelago of French Polynesia, the Gambier Islands, a new species of Rhyncogonus has been discovered by the botanist Jean-François Butaud on Motu Teiku, a small island never previously investigated for plants and insects. Rhyncogonus duhameli sp. nov. is here described and illustrated. 

scholarly journals An Extinct New Rail (Gallirallus, Aves: Rallidae) Species from Rapa Island, French Polynesia

Taxonomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-457
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Salvador ◽  
Atholl Anderson ◽  
Alan Tennyson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
A New Species

A new species of rail, Gallirallus astolfoi sp. nov., is described from Rapa Island (Rapa Iti), French Polynesia. The holotype (and single known specimen) is a left tarsometatarsus recovered from Tangarutu Cave. This rail species was apparently endemic to Rapa Iti and potentially flightless. It became extinct after human colonisation of the island.

Metadynomene tuamotu, a new species of dynomenid crab from French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2405 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
PETER K. L. NG ◽  
COLIN L MCLAY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Tuamotu Archipelago ◽  
Pacific Species ◽  
A New Species

A large dynomenid specimen from the Tuamotu Archipelago previously thought to belong to Metadynomene tanensis (Yokoya, 1933) is shown to be a new species, M. tuamotu sp. nov. Metadynomene tanensis is a widespread Western Pacific species occurring from Japan to New Zealand; while M. tuamotu sp. nov. joins M. devaneyi (Takeda, 1977) as the second species of this genus known from French Polynesia. A key to the genus is provided.

Gorgocephalus yaaji n. sp. (Digenea: Gorgocephalidae) from the brassy chub Kyphosus vaigiensis (Perciformes: Kyphosidae) off Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef and further records of G . kyphosi

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1068 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
RODNEY A. BRAY ◽  
THOMAS H. CRIBB
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Ventral Sucker ◽  
Body Length ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
Kyphosus Vaigiensis ◽  
A New Species

A new species Gorgocephalus yaaji is described in the intestine of Kyphosus vaigiensis from the waters off Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia. It differs from Gorgocephalus kyphosi by its broader body shape, the extension of the vitellarium into the forebody, a relatively longer forebody, cirrus-sac and post-caecal region, and a shorter distance between the ventral sucker and the ovary. It differs from Gorgocephalus manteri in its size, its tandem testes, and the ratios of width, ventral sucker to ovary distance and ovary to testes distance to body-length. Gorgocephalus kyphosi is reported in the pyloric caeca of K. vaigiensis from waters off Moorea, French Polynesia, and Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia. Measurements and an illustration are given of the latter species.

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