A New Species of Eutiara, in the Pandeidae Family (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) from Tahiti Island, French Polynesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Berberian ◽  
Fabien Michenet ◽  
Jacqueline Goy
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
A New Species

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.

Hermit crabs of the genus Calcinus Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 391 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH POUPIN ◽  
RAFAEL LEMAITRE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hermit Crabs ◽  
C Elegans ◽  
Pale Pink ◽  
Bright Orange ◽  
Austral Islands ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
A New Species

Knowledge of morphology, coloration, and distribution of species of Calcinus Dana, 1851 from French Polynesia is expanded based primarily on collections obtained during the French BENTHAUS Expedition in 2002 to the Austral Islands, the southernmost of the French Polynesian islands. Six species of Calcinus were obtained from inshore to depths of 280 m. Of these, one proved to be a new species, C. albengai, and is fully described. This new species has two colour variants, one with pale pink to cream chelipeds that lives in shallow-water from the intertidal to about 50 m, the other with bright orange chelipeds, from deeper waters from about 50 to 280 m. Morphologically this new species is distinguished by differences in the armature of the ocular acicles, aspects of the left and right palms, ventrodistal pilosity of third pereopods, and telson armature. Five species were collected by dredging, trawling, or using traps, in depths of 40 to 280 m: C. anani Poupin & McLaughlin, 1998, C. gouti Poupin, 1997, C. haigae Wooster, 1984, C. spicatus Forest, 1951, and C. aff. sirius Morgan, 1991. Of these, C. gouti was previously known exclusively based on the holotype from Tuamotu, and a more complete diagnosis is presented; the others are also diagnosed, including new details on coloration. Inshore and scuba collecting on Rapa Island produced four additional, but better known species: C. elegans (H. Milne Edwards, 1836), C. latens (Randall, 1840), C. laevimanus (Randall, 1840), and C. vachoni Forest, 1958. The inshore Calcinus fauna of Rapa is briefly compared with its counterpart on Easter Island, located at the same latitude 3500 km to the east. A total of 19 (or possibly 20, should C. sirius be confirmed in the future) Calcinus species are now known from French Polynesia. Cases of sibling species of Calcinus, distinguished almost exclusively by coloration, are summarized.

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