scholarly journals Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in the Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) with description of a new species

PhytoKeys ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Warren L. Wagner ◽  
David H. Lorence
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Marquesas Islands ◽  
A New Species

Xiphonectes aculeatus sp. nov., a new swimming crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) from Madagascar

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4551 (4) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
MILAN KOCH ◽  
ZDENĚK ĎURIŠ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Anterior Region ◽  
Dorsal Margin ◽  
Swimming Crab ◽  
Marquesas Islands ◽  
The Third ◽  
A New Species

Here we describe a new species of Xiphonectes A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Brachyura: Portunidae) from southern Madagascar. Xiphonectes aculeatus sp. nov. is morphologically most similar to X. latibrachium (Rathbun, 1906) from Hawaii, and X. paralatibrachium Crosnier, 2002, from the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. All three species have a carapace with six anterolateral teeth, a long spine on the inner dorsal margin of the cheliped carpus, and a produced, flattened, anterior region on the third maxilliped merus. Among these species, Xiphonectes aculeatus sp. nov. is easily distinguished by the acutely produced posterodistal angle on the meri of its swimming legs, dorsal and marginal structures on its carapace, and most notably, the shape of its frontal teeth. 

scholarly journals Macropharyngodon pakoko, a new species of wrasse (Teleostei: Labridae) endemic to the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

Zootaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3857 (3) ◽  
pp. 433 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERWAN DELRIEU-TROTTIN ◽  
JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS ◽  
SERGE PLANES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Black Spot ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
The Body ◽  
Pectoral Fin ◽  
Marquesas Islands ◽  
Black Spots ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Small Black Spot ◽  
A New Species

A new species of wrasse, Macropharyngodon pakoko, is described from the Marquesas Islands, bringing the total number of species of the genus Macropharyngodon to 12. Macropharyngodon pakoko was found at depths from 0-42 m and is endemic to the Marquesas Islands. Macropharyngodon pakoko is similar to M. meleagris, which is widely distributed from the central and western Pacific to Cocos-Keeling in the Indian Ocean, but differs genetically and in several coloration characters: males with irregularly curved black humeral blotch with incomplete iridescent blue border; inverted irregular “U”- shaped band on the cheek; a small black spot at the upper base of the pectoral fin; and background color of the body greenish with faint bluish black spots on each scale. Females lack black pigment on the chest posterior to the ventral attachment of the gill membranes; reddish black blotches on the body are widely spaced, particularly on the head where they are more reddish and half the size of those on body; caudal fin with small, bright yellow spots arranged in narrow vertical bands with pale interspaces; pelvic fins pale with three reddish yellow cross-bands; a small black spot at the upper base of the pectoral fin; and small reddish spots along the base of the anal fin. Juveniles have irregular black blotches on the body, a small black spot instead of an ocellus posteriorly on the dorsal fin and lack large black spots and ocellus on the anal fin. 

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.

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