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Molluscs of the Northern Mariana Islands, With Special Reference to the Selectivity of Oceanic Dispersal Barriers 1 GEERAT J. VERMEIJ Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 E. ALISON KAY Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 LUCIUS G. ELDREDGE University of Guam Marine Laboratory, UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96913 Abstract- The shelled molluscan fauna of the Northern Marianas, a chain of volcanic islands in the tropical western Pacific, consists of at least 300 species. Of these, 18 are unknown from or are very rare in the biologically better known southern Marianas. These northern-restricted species are over-represented among limpets and in the middle to high intertidal zones of the northern Marianas. At least 22 gastropods which are common in the intertidal zone and on reef flats of the southern Marianas are absent in the northern Marianas. The northern Marianas lie within the presumed source area of the planktonically derived part of the Hawaiian marine fauna. The ocean barrier between the northern Marianas and the Hawaiian chain appears to select against archaeogastropods and against intertidal species but is unselective with respect to adult size and to other aspects of gastropod shell architecture. These findings are consistent with those for other dispersal barriers. Introduction The Mariana Islands form the southern part of an island chain which extends northward through the Bonin, Volcano, and lzu Islands to central Honshu, Japan. Whereas the marine biota of the southern Marianas (Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan) is becoming relatively well known, that of the northern Marianas (Fig. 1) is largely unstudied. Besides a few scattered records, the only published marine biological accounts are those of Tsuda and Tobias (1977a, b), who provided a checklist of algae. The taxonomic composition and biogeographical affinities of the marine fauna of the northern Marianas are interesting for at least three reasons. First, the shores of the northern islands are almost entirely volcanic and might be expected to yield species that are absent from the raised limestone and associated reef-flat shorelines of the southern Marianas. Second, the Marianas lie in what has traditionally been 1 Contribution No. 196, University of Guam Marine Laboratory. Micronesica 19( 1- 2): 27- 55, 1983 (December).

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Molluscs of the Northern Mariana Islands, With Special Reference to the Selectivity

of Oceanic Dispersal Barriers1

GEERAT J. VERMEIJ

Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

E. ALISON KAY

Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

LUCIUS G. ELDREDGE

University of Guam Marine Laboratory, UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96913

Abstract- The shelled molluscan fauna of the Northern Marianas, a chain of volcanic islands in the tropical western Pacific, consists of at least 300 species. Of these, 18 are unknown from or are very rare in the biologically better known southern Marianas. These northern-restricted species are over-represented among limpets and in the middle to high intertidal zones of the northern Marianas. At least 22 gastropods which are common in the intertidal zone and on reef flats of the southern Marianas are absent in the northern Marianas.

The northern Marianas lie within the presumed source area of the planktonically derived part of the Hawaiian marine fauna. The ocean barrier between the northern Marianas and the Hawaiian chain appears to select against archaeogastropods and against intertidal species but is unselective with respect to adult size and to other aspects of gastropod shell architecture. These findings are consistent with those for other dispersal barriers.

Introduction

The Mariana Islands form the southern part of an island chain which extends northward through the Bonin, Volcano, and lzu Islands to central Honshu, Japan. Whereas the marine biota of the southern Marianas (Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan) is becoming relatively well known, that of the northern Marianas (Fig. 1) is largely unstudied. Besides a few scattered records, the only published marine biological accounts are those of Tsuda and Tobias (1977a, b), who provided a checklist of algae.

The taxonomic composition and biogeographical affinities of the marine fauna of the northern Marianas are interesting for at least three reasons. First, the shores of the northern islands are almost entirely volcanic and might be expected to yield species that are absent from the raised limestone and associated reef-flat shorelines of the southern Marianas. Second, the Marianas lie in what has traditionally been

1 Contribution No. 196, University of Guam Marine Laboratory. Micronesica 19(1- 2): 27- 55, 1983 (December).

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plate on which most of the islands of the Pacific lie, by the deep Marianas Trench, and thus are a test area for some of the biogeographical hypotheses recently proposed by Kay (1980a, 1984) and Springer (1982). ,

The molluscan fauna of the northern Marianas especially invites comparison with that of the Hawaiian Islands which, like the northern Marianas, are largely volcanic. The Hawaiian chain consists of a series of 26 islands extending from Hawaii in the southeast, the youngest at - 1 my, to Kure, an atoll resting on an ancient volcanic pedestal to the northwest. Dating of basalt at Midway near Kure indicates that the island was above the sea in the Miocene, 30 my ago (Ladd et al. 1970). The age sequence in the Mariana Islands is opposite that in Hawaii; Guam and Saipan in the south are the oldest islands and much of their volcanic base is capped with Pliocene and Pleistocene limestone. The northern arc of islands, from Anatahan to Uracas, is a series of young volcanic islands, and Pagan, Asuncion, and Uracas are all active volcanoes.

The subtropical countercurrent, which arises in the west as an offshoot from the Kuroshio Current, flows eastward through the northern Marianas and continues erratically eastward to Johnston Island and thence to the northwestern Hawaiian islands. (For discussions of the biogeographical affinities of the Hawaiian Islands see Kay, 1967, 1980a; and Grigg, 1981.) The fauna of the northern Marianas thus affords the opportunity to examine the selectivity of the dispersal filter between the Hawaiian biota and its presumed source in the northwestern Pacific.

Very little is currently known about the ecological and architectural differences between widely dispersing and poorly dispersing species. The topic is important because wide dispersal is assoCiated with long-term resistance to extinction (Stanley, 1979). If statistical associations exist between dispersability and biotic competence, long-term evolutionary trends toward an increase in biotic competence might be tied to the evolution of large-scale dispersal by planktonic stages.

Materials and Methods

The material reported on results from several expeditions to the northern Marianas organized by the University of Guam Marine Laboratory between 1972 and 1981. All three of us have made field observations in the northern Marianas and all nine islands have been visited by one or another ofus.Shallow-water habitats were sampled by wading, snorkeling, and scuba diving. Sediment samples collected from tidepools and offshore to depths of 30m were examined for micromolluscs (molluscs less than 7 mm in greatest dimension) and quantitative analyses were performed following the method of Kay (1980b). We have also examined the collections made by C. Carlson and P. J. Hoff aboard the WANDERER and those of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNMNH).

The shelled molluscs reported on are deposited in the University of Guam Marine Laboratory collection, in the Vermeij collections, and in the Kay collections at the University of Hawaii.

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Only species with shells greater than about I 0 mm in greatest dimension are used for the analyses of architectural differences among shells. Thick -lipped shells are those which have an expanded or thickened rim of the aperture in the adult stage; thin­lipped shells are those which lack this modification. Species referred to the intertidal are those found in the intertidal and include species which occur both in the intertidal and the subtidal.

Results

Northern Mariana-Southern Mariana Comparison. A list of species and their occurrence on the nine northern Mariana Islands is

presented in Appendix I. We have excluded small alga-dwellers such as the Eatoniellidae and Cingulopsidae and the sessile Vermetidae (except for Serpulorbis variabilis) from our list, and our inventory of the fauna is certain to be incomplete in other respects. However, it shows clearly that several species which are abundant on the shores of Guam and others of the southern Marianas are conspicuously rare or absent in the northern Marianas and vice versa.

Twenty-two common shallow-water, hard-bottom molluscs from Guam which are absent from the northern islands are listed in Appendix 2. Eight (36%) are confined to the middle or high intertidal zones, and I4 (64%) are found chiefly or exclusively on reef flats . It is interesting that Trochus niloticus has not been found in the northern Marianas. This species was introduced from Belau (formerly Palau) to Saipan in the late I930s and to Guam about two decades later (Eldredge, in press). It is now abundant on reef-flats and subtidally to a depth of at least I2 m (B. Smith, pers. comm.) on both Saipan and Guam.

Several other species which are abundant on Guam are found only sporadically in the northern Marianas; others may have been erroneously recorded from these islands. Only one specimen of Cerithium columna was found in the northern islands (at Pagan in I98I), and it differs from the abundant intertidal form at Guam by having much finer sculpture. Seven species in the USNMNH collections made by U.S. Armed Forces in I945 (Appendix I) have not been found during the University of Guam Marine Laboratory expeditions, and the locality data accompanying the specimens may be erroneous.1 We have identified I8 species from the northern Marianas which are absent or very rare in the biologically better known southern

1 A. H. Banner (pers. comm. to GJV, 28 June 1984) tells us that molluscs which he collected at Agrihan and Maug in 1945 were very likely intermixed with material taken at Saipan when a large military truck drove accidentally over the collected specimens. Although he attempted to salvage the remains, . Banner cannot guarantee the accuracy of the locality data of the molluscs, which were subsequently deposited at the USNMNH. Species which we believe are erroneously recorded from the northern islands in this way include Cerithium nodulosum, Cymatium nicobaricum, C. muricinum, Chicoreus brunneus, Cantharus fumosus, Nebularia chrysalis, and Vasum turbinellus. All these species are common on the reef flats of the southern Marianas including Saipan. We also doubt the record of Trochus maculatus, a species probably absent from the southern Marianas.

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Marianas (Appendix 1). Although Pusia sp. may be easily overlooked because their shells are less than

about 10 mm in greatest dimension, the other species have prominent shells, and we do not believe their absence or rarity on Guam is an artifact of co!J'ection. Additionally, several northern Marianas species are reported from Guam but have not been found in recent years. Haliotis ovina and H . varia varia were recorded by Talmadge (1963). H. ovina is represented in the USNMNH collections by one specimen from Saipan. Nodilittorina pyramidalis is recorded by Rosewater (1970) from "Apra Bay" (Guam) and from Saipan, but we have not found it in the southern Marianas. Planaxis niger, abundant in the northern Marianas, was collected from northern Saipan (Kropp, pers. comm.), but no other southern Marianas record of this species is known.

Most (66 %) of the northern-restricted species were found on two or more of the nine islands (Appendix 1). They are particularly well represented in the intertidal zone. Of the 35 gastropod species found in or above the middle intertidal barnacle (Tetraclita) zone, 10 (29 %) belong to the northern-restricted group. An additional species, Nerita guamensis, occurs at two of the northern islands as a dark form which is unknown from the southern Marianas. Species with a limpet-like form comprise 8% of the northern Marianas gastropod fauna as a whole but 29%of the northern­restricted species.

Northern-restricted species are not confined to the Mollusca. Among corals, Leptastrea sp. and Millepora foveolata are known from Pagan but not from the southern Marianas (R. H. Randall, pers. comm.). At least two porcellanid crabs are northern-restricted (R. K. Kropp, in prep.). The high intertidal hermit crab Calcinus seurati has been found at Pagan and Saipan but is unknown from Guam (D. S. Wooster, pers. comm.). The fishes Labroides pectoralis and Pseudodax molluccanus are also absent from Guam but have been seen at Pagan (R. Myers, pers. comm.). Randall (1982) reports that the surgeon fish Acanthurus leucopareius, rare at Guam, is common in the northern Marianas. Algae found in the northern but not the southern Marianas include the phaeophytes Dictyota hamifera, Hormophyta triquetra, and Stipopodium hawaiiense (Tsuda and Tobias, 1977a; Eldredge et a!., 1977) and the rhodophytes Dermonema frappieri, Polysiphonia sacchorhiza, Laurencia succisa, L . surculifera, Galaxaura filamentosa, G. hystrix, and G. veprecula (Tsuda and Tobias, 1977b; Itono, 1980).

Northern Marianas-Hawaiian Comparison. Data comparing the molluscan faunas of the northern Marianas and the

Hawaiian Islands are set out in Tables 1-3. The northern Marianas Archaeo­gastropoda (superfamilies Pleurotomariacea, Fissurellacea, Patellacea, and Tro­chacea) are less well represented in the Hawaiian Islands than are the mesogastro­pods and neogastropods (Table 1). Indeed, two families of archaeogastropods, the Haliotidae and Acmaeidae, which contribute 17% of the archaeogastropod species to the northern Marianas fauna, are not present at all in Hawaii. The effect of this

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Table I. Hawaiian affinities of the northern Marianas fauna.

Taxonomic groups Archaeogastropoda Neritacea Mesogastropoda Neogastropoda Euthyneura Polyplacophora Bivalvia

Architectural groups * Gastropods, narrow

aperture * Gastropods, thick

or expanded lip * Gastropods, thin lip * Gastropods, large

(>50mm) * Gastropods, small

(> !Omm) Habitat groups

Gastropods, middle to high intertidal

Gastropods, lower shore, hard bottom

Gastropods, soft bottom Bivalves, soft bottom

No. of species in northern Marianas

41 8

87 Ill 21

2 39

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56 13

*Comparison excluding Archaeogastropoda

%Occurring in Hawaii

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Table 2. Numbers of intertidal mollusc species recorded in the northern Marianas and in Hawaii (Hawaiian data from Kay, 1979).

Northern Marianas Hawaii

Archaeogastropods 7 (4 families, 3 (I family, 6 genera) I genus

all endemic) Neritidae 6 4 Littorinidae 6 4 (I endemic) Planaxidae 2 2 Muricacea 8 9 (2 endemic) Mitracea I 2 Smaragdinellidae I I Melampidae 2 6 (2 possibly

endemic) Siphonariidae 2 2 Bivalvia 0 3

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Table 3. Numbers of samples and percent species composition of major components of micromolluscan assemblages in the Northern Marianas

and in the Hawaiian Islands.

N. Marianas Hawaii 1. 1 Oahu J.2 Niihau3

No. of samples 19 9 11 6

Number shells 3,053 3,032 3,978 2,705 Percent Composition

Archaeogastropoda5 18 7 3 9

Rissoidae 4 23 17 27 Cerithiidae 19 3 4 7 Dialidae >I 4 31 9

' Samples from 3- lOm depth transects on subtidal reef, Kona, Hawaii 2 Samples from !Om depth on transects at Waianae, Oahu 3 Samples from 3- 10m depth on transects on the lee shore of Niihau 4 French Frigate Shoals. Samples from 8 m depth s Archaeogastropoda do not include Tricolia variabilis.

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F. F. S.4

11 2,334

II 18 13 15

relative lack of archaeogastropods is reflected in two comparisons (Tables 2 and 3). When the numbers of species found in the intertidal in the northern Marianas and the Hawaiian Islands are compared, about the same numbers are found in both areas, but whereas seven species of archaeogastropods occur in the intertidal of the northern Marianas only three archaeogastropod species occur in that zone in Hawaii, all in the same genus (Cellana) and all endemic. The numbers of species in other groups are similar for the two island groups, i.e. , there are four or five species of nerites, five or six species of littorines, and eight or nine species of muricaceans.

When the relative proportions of micromolluscs from subtidal sediment samples (Table 3) are compared, 18 % of the micromolluscs in the samples from the northern Marianas are archaeogastropods (exclusive of Tricolia variabilis which is highly variable in numbers both in the northern Mariana and Hawaiian Islands) while in the Hawaiian Islands the figure ranges from 3 to 11 %. Rissoids comprise a low proportion of the shells in the northern Marianas but a higher proportion in the Hawaiian Islands, and cerithiids which are also prominent in the northern Marianas (they comprise about 19% of the fauna) are less prominent in Hawaii.

The northern Marianas and Hawaiian marine molluscan faunas are similar in gastropod: bivalve proportions-88: 12 and 88 : 17, respectively, and the figures for both island groups are consistent with those reported for other islands (Kay, 1967). Soft-bottom and hard-bottom species from the lower shore do not differ in their relative proportions (Table 1). The Hawaiian marine molluscan fauna differs from that of the northern Marianas, however, in its relatively high percentage of endemism at the species level (about 15%, Kay, 1979). There is apparently little or no endemism at this level in the northern Marianas. Several species in the Hawaiian fauna are widespread in the Pacific Ocean and have been termed Pacific plate species (cf. Springer, 1981, 1982; Kay, 1980a, 1984) because they appear to be restricted to the

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Pacific plate. In molluscan groups for which there is good distributional information, such as the cowries and strombids, more than 25% of the species in Hawaii are Pacific plate species. We have detected only one cowrie-Cypraea maculifera which is predominantly Pacific plate species in the northern Marianas.

With respect to gastropod antipredator shell architecture, mesogastropods, neogastropods, and euthyneura with a narrowly elongated aperture are found in about the same proportion in the northern Mariana Islands and the Hawaiian Islands as are member of these groups with a broad aperture. Furthermore, there are no differences in the proportion of thick-lipped and thin-lipped gastropods exclusive of the Archaeogastropoda (that is, the Neritacea, Mesogastropoda, Neogastropoda, and Euthyneura) in the northern Mariana and Hawaiian Islands. Had we compared the distribution of thick-lipped members of these groups to all thin-lipped gastropods rather than excluding the archaeogastropods, then more thick-lipped, narrow­apertured species would appear. Gastropods of large size (more than 5 em maximum dimension) are found in Hawaii in the same proportion as are smaller-shelled species (Table 1).

Discussion

The presence/absence and the distribution of molluscs within the northern Marianas are affected by at least three factors: collecting effort, types of habitat, and an island effect, as shown by patchy distributions. More visits were made to Pagan for which the largest number of species was recorded (230) than to other islands of the northern Marianas, and fewer visits were made to Uracas. Pagan is also the most geologically diverse of the islands in the chain, with black sand beaches, raised limestone benches, and subtidal coral communities. Uracas is characterized by a foreshore of basalt boulders and is surrounded by warm sulphurous water. Maug, composed of three weathered volcanic peaks which surround the old crater may have the most extensive coral reef development among the islands. Finally, species presence or absence on all the islands may be the result of an island effect in that the presence or absence of species can be the result of chance. Patchy distributions on islands have been documented for the Line Islands (Kay, 1971) and the Hawaiian Islands (Kay, 1979; 1980a).

Of the occurrences of several species which are abundant on the shores of Guam and others of the southern Marianas but which are absent or rare in the northern Marianas, some are explicable. The absence of species that inhabit seagrass meadows and mangroves is expected because these habitats are not represented in the northern Marianas. For other shallow-water species, however, absence in the north is more puzzling. We rather expected the southern-restricted species to be confined to limestone surfaces and to be absent from volcanic substrates. With the possible exception of the limestone-restricted limpet Patelloida sp., however, the southern­restricted species are known from both limestone and volcanic shores. The 22 common shallaw-water hard-bottom molluscs from Guam which are absent from the

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northern islands are ecologically and biogeo graphically unrepresentative of the fauna as a whole, with over a third of the species confined to the middle and high intertidal zones, and the other two-thirds found on reef flats.

The northern-restricted species are also ecologically, morphologically, and biogeographically atypical of the northern Marianas fauna as a whole, and a high proportion of intertidal and limpet-like forms also characterizes the northern Marianas forms. Additionally, many of the northern-restricted species appear to be confined to high islands and to be absent from atolls. Usillafusconigra, for example, is known from Okinawa, Samoa, the Marquesas, and the Hawaiian Islands, but has not been collected from atolls in the Marshalls, Societies, or Tuamotus (data from USNMNH, British Museum (Natural History), B. P. Bishop Museum). Other examples of high island species include Cellana toreuma, the three acmaeids, Nodilittorina pyramidalis, and Planaxis niger. Some or all of these species may be restricted to volcanic substrates.

The most obvious difference between the Hawaiian fauna and that of the northern Marianas is in the proportion of archaeogastropods, both in terms of species composition and in terms of absolute numbers. The lesser proportion of archaeogastropods in the Hawaiian fauna as compared with that of the northern Marianas is consistent with what is known of the larval life history of these gastropods: they tend to lack widely dispersing teleplanic larval stages (Kay, 1984) which may prevent them from reaching the Hawaiian chain from the west. Mesogastropods and neogastropods have teleplanic larvae which are taxonomically widespread and therefore are expected in larger proportion. There are, however, some anomalies in the dispersal pattern: for example, only three of the southern­restricted species-Hipponix foliaceus, Cymatium gemmatum, and Mitra cucu­merina - - 14% of the southern-restricted species are also found in Hawaii and only one of the common northern-restricted species ( Usilla fusconigra) is also known from Hawaii.

Other studies of selectivity of dispersal barriers in the ocean have yielded results similar to those we report here. The barrier between the Line Islands in the west and the offshore islands of the eastern Pacific in the east is unselective with respect to apertural shape and shell size (Vermeij , 1978), but there is a selective diminution of numbers of species with apertural modification between the eastern Pacific islands and the mainland coast of western tropical America (Vermeij, 1978). This latter conclusion, however, rests on a small sample, because most of the Indo-west Pacific elements which extend as far east as the offshore islands do not also occur on the mainland (see also Emerson, 1978; Zinsmeister and Emerson, 1979). The selectivity of the Suez Canal as a barrier remains a matter of dispute, but Vermeij's (1978) analysis suggests that there is no strong reduction of any one architectural group of species between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean through the Canal. On the other hand, upper shore species have perhaps been less prone to migration through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean than have lower shore species (Safriel and Lipkin, 1975; Vermeij, 1978).

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The biogeographical distinctiveness of the gastropods of the upper shore in the northern Marianas recalls the upper shore endemism in the Hawaiian Islands, although endemism per se is not pronounced in the northern Marianas. Similar situations have been reported in the southern tropical Atlantic, western Indian Ocean, and Red Sea (Vermeij, 1972, 1978). The data from the present study suggest that poor dispersability and effective adaptation to locally distinctive environments contribute to the endemism of the high intertidal biota.

Finally, we wish to emphasize that, although faunal surveys have often been maligned as being superficial descriptive studies, they are essential for the under­standing of biogeographical affinities, selectivity of barriers, and patterns of diversity. We believe that a comparison of the tropical East Asian mainland biota with that of the northern Marianas will shed further light on the nature of the open-ocean dispersal barrier.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the Office of Coastal Resources Management, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (especially J. Elemato, Manager, and B. Aldan, Coastal Coordinator for Pagan) for support to visit Pagan in March and July, 1981. The Governor's Office further cleared the way for our visits. Mary and John Laverny, owners of the SJ-TI-SJ, enabled us to visit several of the islands in July 1981. The Marvin J. Coles Memorial Fund of the Guam Oil and Refining Company, the National Park Service, the National Sea Grant program, and the National Science Foundation, Institutional Grant for Science at the University of Guam, and the Program of Biological Oceanography grant to G. J . Vermeij, are gratefully acknowl­edged for funding the work reported here. Field assistance was provided by B. Best, R. E. Dickinson, M. J . Gawel, and R. K. Kropp. We thank W. K. Emerson, R. S. Houbrick, D. Lindberg, J. Rosewater, and R. Salisbury for confirming several identifications and B. D. Smith for critical review of the manuscript. We are also grateful to the United States National Museum (Natural History), the British Museum (Natural History), and the Bernice P. Bishop Museum for use of their collections.

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a W

atso

n X

Pse

udos

tom

atel

la s

p.

X

X

*Sto

mat

ella

p/a

nula

ta

X

X

Inte

rtid

al

'tam

arck

S

. cf.

S. a

uric

ula

Lam

arck

X

X

Tro

chus

int

extu

s K

iene

r X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i T

. m

acul

atus

Lin

ne

X

X

T. o

chro

leuc

us G

mel

in

X

X

X

T. p

yram

is (

Bor

n)

X

Dan

ilia

cf.

D.

X

euch

e/if

orm

is N

om

ura

an

d H

atai

C

/anc

u/us

atr

opur

pure

us

X

X

:::: ;:;-(G

ould

) ..., 0

C.

c/an

gulo

ides

(W

ood)

A

lso

in H

awai

i ::s

X

X

" "' b

ut

extr

emel

y <r "'

rare

M

onil

ea p

hili

ppia

na

X

(Dun

ker)

G

ibbu

la m

arm

orea

(P

ease

) X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i E

uche

lus

cf.

E.

fove

olat

a X

X

(A.

Ada

ms)

E

. pa

uper

culu

s (L

isch

ke)

X

X

X

Syna

ptoc

och/

ea c

onci

nna

X

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Gou

ld)

Tro

chid

ae s

p.

X

Lep

toth

yra

cf.

L.

inep

ta

X

(Gou

ld)

L.

cf.

L.

mac

ulos

a (P

ease

) X

X

X

Lep

toth

yra

sp.

X

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Pha

sian

ella

so/

ida

(Bor

n)

X

Tri

colia

var

iabi

lis (

Peas

e)

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Ast

raea

rho

dost

oma

X

X

X

(Lam

arck

) T

urbo

arg

yros

tom

us

X

X

X

X

Sar

igan

Lin

ne

Ala

mag

an

Agr

ihan

T. p

etho

latu

s L

inne

X

X

X

T. s

etos

us G

mel

in

X

X

X

X

X

Agr

ihan

NE

RIT

AC

EA

N

erit

a al

bici

lla L

inne

X

In

tert

idal

; al

so

in H

awai

i

N.

guam

ensi

s Q

uoy

X

Sar

igan

In

tert

idal

; da

rk

<

and

Gai

mar

d fo

rm o

nly

~

N.

insc

u/pt

a R

eclu

z X

In

tert

idal

;o

N.

max

ima

Gm

elin

X

In

tert

idal

I:

)

N.

plic

ata

Lin

ne

X

X

X

X

Sar

igan

In

tert

idal

; al

so

§ 3 A

lam

agan

in

Haw

aii

but

r::T <>

rare

exc

ept

in

.... :c th

e N

orth

wes

t 0

0

Isla

nds

...,

N. p

olit

a L

inne

X

In

tert

idal

; al

so

in H

awai

i

Pup

erit

a be

nson

i (R

eclu

z)

X

Ner

itop

sis

radu

la (

Lin

ne)

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

ME

SO

GA

ST

RO

PO

DA

L

itto

rina

coc

cine

a X

X

S

arig

an

Inte

rtid

al;

also

(Gm

elin

) in

Haw

aii

but

rare

L.

pint

ado

Woo

d X

X

X

X

X

X

S

arig

an

Inte

rtid

al;

also

A

grih

an

in H

awai

i (R

osew

ater

19

70)

..., -c

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endi

x. (

cont

inue

d)

"""

0

Ana

taha

n G

ugua

n P

agan

A

sunc

ion

Mau

g U

raca

s O

ther

R

emar

ks

L.

undu

lata

Gra

y X

In

tert

idal

; al

so

in H

awai

i b

ut

rare

N

.f;di

litto

rina

mil

legr

ana

X

Inte

rtid

al

(Phi

lipp

i)

* N.

pyra

mid

alis

X

X

X

X

In

tert

idal

(Q

uoy

and

Gai

mar

d)

* N.

quad

rici

ncta

feej

eens

is

X

X

X

X

X

Inte

rtid

al;

see

(Ree

ve)

Ros

ewat

er a

nd

Kad

olsk

y 19

81 f

or

nom

encl

atur

e R

isso

ina

ambi

gua

(Gou

ld)

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

a:: R

. m

ilto

zona

Tom

lin

X

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

;:;·

R.

turr

icul

a P

ease

A

lso

in H

awai

i ...

X

X

X

X

0

Schw

artz

iell

a gr

acili

s 1:1

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i " "'

. (P

ease

) ;:;

· "' Sa

nson

ia s

p.

X

Par

ashi

ela

beet

si L

add

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Pyr

amid

ello

ides

sut

a X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (P

ilsb

ry)

Zeb

ina

imbr

icat

a (G

ould

) X

A

lso

in H

awai

i Z

. tr

iden

tata

(M

icha

ud)

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Bro

okul

a cf

. B

. ik

i K

ay

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Leu

corh

ynch

ia c

f. L.

cro

ssei

X

(Tyr

on)

Lio

tina

loc

ulos

a (G

ould

) X

Van

ikor

o ac

uta

(Rec

luz)

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i V

. ca

ncel

lata

(L

amar

ck)

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

V. d

ista

ns (

Rec

luz)

X

Sabi

a co

nica

X

X

X

X

X

A

grih

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Sch

umac

her)

(U

SN

MN

H)

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* Pla

naxi

s ni

ger

X

X

X

X

Sar

igan

In

tert

idal

(Q

uoy

and

Gai

mar

d)

Ala

mag

an

P.

zona

tus

A. A

dam

s X

X

X

X

X

A

lam

agan

In

tert

idal

Lop

ohoc

och/

ias

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

min

utis

sim

us (

Pil

sbry

) O

mal

ogyr

a ja

poni

ca

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Hab

e)

Cyc

lost

rem

iscu

s em

eryi

X

X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

(Lad

d)

Orb

ites

tell

a re

gina

Kay

X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i C

aec

um a

rcua

tum

de

Fol

in

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

oahu

ense

(P

ilsb

ry)

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

sepi

men

tum

de

Fol

in

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

cf.

C.

glab

el/u

m A

. Ada

ms

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

< ~

Mod

ulus

tec

tum

(G

mel

in)

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

-B

itti

um z

ebru

m (

Kie

ner)

X

X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i ~

B. p

arcu

m (

Gou

ld)

X

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

0 2 S

erpu

lorb

is v

aria

bilis

X

X

X

In

tert

idal

; al

so

"' 9 H

adfi

eld

and

Kay

in

Haw

aii

cr "'

Cer

ithi

um a

trom

argi

natu

m

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

.... -D

autz

enbe

rg a

nd B

ouge

"' 00 w

C

. co

lum

na S

ower

by

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

inte

rstr

iatu

m S

ower

by

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

egen

um G

ould

X

X

X

X

A

lam

agan

A

lso

in h

awai

i A

grih

an

C.

mut

atum

Sow

erby

X

X

X

X

A

lam

agan

A

lso

in H

awai

i A

grih

an

C.

nesi

otic

um P

ilsb

ry a

nd

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Van

atta

C

. no

dulo

sum

Bru

guii:

re

X

(US

NM

NH

)

C.

cf.

C.

rubu

s D

esha

yes

Agr

ihan

Se

e R

ehde

r ( 1

980)

(U

SN

MN

H)

for

disc

ussi

on o

f th

is s

peci

es

:::

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"""

N

Ana

taha

n G

ugua

n P

agan

A

sunc

ion

Mau

g U

raca

s O

ther

R

emar

ks

Rhi

nocl

avis

asp

era

X

(Lin

ne)

R.

fasc

iata

(B

rugu

iere

) X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

R\

sine

nsis

(G

mel

in)

X

X

X

Sar

igan

L

arge

for

m o

nly;

al

so i

n H

awai

i

Cer

ithi

dium

per

parv

ulum

X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

(Wat

son)

C

erit

hidi

um s

p.

X

X

Dia

la j

lam

mea

(Pe

ase)

X

Fin

ella

pup

oide

s A

. A

dam

s X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

Scal

iola

sp.

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

Dia

lida

e cf

. A

/aba

sp.

X

Stro

mbu

s de

ntat

us L

inne

X

~

S.

mic

rour

ceus

Kir

a X

A

grih

an

c;·

.... (A

bbot

t 0 ::s "

1960

) "' c;·

!>

l S

. m

utab

ilis

Sw

ains

on

X

S. p

lica

tus

pulc

hell

us

X

Ree

ve

(Abb

ott

1960

) L

ambi

s ch

irag

ra c

hira

gra

X

(Lin

ne)

L. t

runc

ata

seba

e X

X

(Kie

ner)

T

ereb

el/u

m t

ereb

el/u

m

X

(Lin

ne)

Pol

inic

es m

elan

osto

mus

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

(Gm

elin

) (U

SN

MN

H)

Nat

icid

ae s

p.

X

Lac

hrym

a su

/cif

era

X

X

(Sow

erby

)

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Cyp

raea

cap

utse

rpen

tis

X

X

X

X

X

X

Sar

igan

A

lso

in H

awai

i L

inne

A

lam

agan

, A

grih

an

C.

cam

eo/a

Lin

ne

X

X

X

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i C

. de

pres

sa G

ray

X

C.

eros

a L

inne

X

X

X

E

xtre

mel

y ra

re i

n (U

SN

MN

H)

Haw

aii

C.

fim

bria

ta G

mel

in

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

g/ob

ulus

Lin

ne

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

he/v

ola

Lin

ne

X

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

isab

ella

Lin

ne

X

X

X

X

X

Sar

igan

A

lso

in H

awai

i C

. ly

nx

Lin

ne

X

X

Ala

mag

an

Ext

rem

ely

rare

in

(US

NM

NH

) H

awai

i C

. m

acu/

ifer

a S

chil

der

X

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

<

~

C.

mau

riti

ana

Lin

ne

X

X

X

Ala

mag

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(US

NM

NH

) A

grih

an

~

(US

NM

NH

) t:

)

C.

mon

eta

Lin

ne

X

X

X

X

Ala

mag

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

~ 3 C

. po

rari

a L

inne

X

X

X

X

X

A

lam

agan

A

lso

in H

awai

i g"

A

grih

an

... ~

Sar

igan

0

0

(US

NM

NH

) ....

C.

talp

a L

inne

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i C

. te

stud

inar

ia L

inne

X

C.

tere

s G

mel

in

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

vite

llus

Lin

ne

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Cas

sis

corn

uta

Lin

ne

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Cas

mar

ia p

onde

rosa

X

(Gm

elin

) C

ymat

ium

hep

atic

um

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Rod

ing)

C

. m

uric

inum

(R

odin

g)

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(US

NM

NH

) C

. ni

coba

ricu

m

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (R

odin

g)

(US

NM

NH

) ... ....

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""" """

Ana

taha

n G

ugua

n P

agan

A

sunc

ion

Mau

g U

raca

s O

ther

R

emar

ks

C.

pile

are

(Lin

ne)

X

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (U

SN

MN

H)

B\s

a b

ufon

ia (

Gm

elin

) X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i B

. gr

anul

aris

(R

odin

g)

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

NE

OG

AS

TR

OP

OD

A

M u

rico

drup

a fu

nicu

lus

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Woo

d)

Tha

is a

rmig

era

(Lin

k)

X

X

X

X

Inte

rtid

al;

also

in

Haw

aii

T.

tube

rosa

(R

odin

g)

X

X

T. i

nter

med

ia (

Kie

ner)

X

X

X

X

In

tert

idal

; al

so

(US

NM

NH

) in

Haw

aii

::: c;·

Pur

pura

per

sica

(L

inne

) X

X

X

X

X

In

tert

idal

.... 0

Mor

ula

bico

nica

X

X

X

::s ,. "'

(Bla

in vi

lle)

c;· ""

M.

gran

ulat

a (D

uclo

s)

X

X

X

X

Inte

rtid

al;

also

in

Haw

aii

M.

spin

osa

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(H.

& A

. Ada

ms)

M

. uv

a (R

odin

g)

X

X

X

X

X

Agr

ihan

In

tert

idal

; al

so

in H

awai

i D

rupe

lla

elat

a X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (B

lain

ville

) (U

SN

MN

H)

D.

ochr

osto

ma

X

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (B

lain

ville

) (U

SN

MN

H)

Dru

pa a

rach

noid

es

X

X

X

X

Sar

igan

A

lso

in H

awai

i; w

e (L

amar

ck)

rega

rd t

his

as a

di

stin

ct s

peci

es

alth

ough

it

is

not

reco

gniz

ed a

s

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such

by

Em

erso

n an

d C

erno

hors

ky

(197

3)

D.

clat

hrat

a cl

athr

ata

X

X

X

Mau

g re

cord

tha

t (L

amar

ck)

of

Em

erso

n an

d C

erno

hors

ky

(197

3)

D.

gros

sula

ria

(Rod

ing)

X

X

A

grih

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

but

alm

ost

enti

rely

re

stri

cted

to

the

Nor

thw

est

Haw

aiia

n Is

land

s D

. m

orum

mor

um

X

X

X

X

Ala

mag

an

Inte

rtid

al;

also

(R

odin

g)

Agr

ihan

in

Haw

aii

<

~

D.

rici

nus

(Lin

ne)

X

X

X

X

X

Inte

rtid

al;

also

in

Haw

aii

~

D.

rubu

sida

eus

(Rod

ing)

X

X

X

X

In

tert

idal

; al

so

0 ~ in

Haw

aii

8 N

assa

ser

ta

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

cr ..

(Bru

guie

re)

.... -M

acu/

otri

ton

brac

teat

a A

lso

in H

awai

i \0

X

X

0

0

w

(Hin

ds)

*Usi

llaf

usco

nigr

a (P

ease

) X

X

In

tert

idal

; al

so

in H

awai

i C

hico

reus

bru

nneu

s X

(Lin

k)

(US

NM

NH

) C

oral

liop

hila

vio

lace

a X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (K

iene

r)

Quo

yu/a

mon

odon

ta

X

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (B

lain

ville

) C

aduc

ifer

dec

apit

ata

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

fusc

omac

ulat

ti (

Peas

e)

C.

iost

omus

(G

ray

in

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Gri

ffit

hs a

nd P

idgi

n)

.;.

v.

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.,. a-

Ana

taha

n G

ugua

n P

agan

A

sunc

ion

Mau

g U

raca

s O

ther

R

emar

ks

Pis

ania

ign

ea (

Gm

elin

) X

A

lso

in H

awai

i C

anth

arus

fum

osus

X

\(D

illw

yn)

(US

NM

NH

) C

. un

dosu

s (L

inne

) X

X

X

X

(US

NM

NH

) N

assa

rius

gau

dios

us

X

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (H

inds

) N

. pap

illo

sus

(Lin

ne)

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

N. p

aupe

rus

(Gou

ld)

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Eup

lica

des

haye

si

X

(Cro

sse)

E

. tu

rtur

ina

(Lam

arck

) X

A

lso

in H

awai

i bu

t ra

re i

n th

e ~

r;·

win

dwar

d is

land

s ... 0

E.

vari

ans

(Sow

erby

) X

A

lso

in H

awai

i =

~-P

yren

e ob

tusa

(So

wer

by)

X

X

II>

(US

NM

NH

) O

liva

ann

ulat

a G

mel

in

X

Sem

inel

la v

irgi

nea

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Gou

ld)

Sem

inel

la s

p.

X

Vas

um c

eram

icum

(L

inne

) X

X

X

X

X

X

S

arig

an

V.

turb

inel

lus

(Lin

ne)

Ala

mag

an

X

(US

NM

NH

) L

atir

us b

arcl

ayi

(Ree

ve)

X

X

X

X

X

X

Agr

ihan

(U

SN

MN

H)

L.

notk

ltus

(G

mel

in)

X

X

X

Alm

agan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (U

SN

MN

H)

Agr

ihan

(U

SN

MN

H)

L.

noum

eens

is (

Cro

sse)

X

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Per

iste

rnia

nas

satu

la

X

X

X

X

Ala

mag

an

(Lam

arck

) A

grih

an

Mit

ra c

hrys

osto

ma

X

X

Bro

deri

p M

. im

peri

o/is

(R

odin

g)

X

Mau

g re

cord

tha

t o

f C

erno

hors

ky

(197

6)

M.

stic

tica

(L

ink)

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i St

riga

tell

a fa

stig

ium

X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (R

eeve

) S.

/it

tera

ta (

Lin

ne)

X

X

X

Inte

rtid

al;

also

in

Haw

aii

S. p

aupe

rcul

a (L

inne

) X

X

S. p

elli

sser

pent

is (

Ree

ve)

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

<

• Str

igat

el/a

sp.

X

X

X

~ -

Neb

ular

ia a

uror

a jl

orid

ula

Sar

igan

~

(Sow

er by

) 0

N. f

erru

gine

a X

X

A

grih

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

~ 9 L

amar

ck

(US

NM

NH

) g"

N

. ch

rysa

lis

(Ree

ve)

X

.... -(U

SN

MN

H)

'0

00

Cos

tel/

aria

cro

cata

A

lso

in H

awai

i ..,

X

(Lam

arck

)

C.

coro

natu

m (

Hel

blin

g)

X

C.

unif

asci

alis

A

lam

agan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (L

amar

ck)

C.

paci

ficu

m (

Ree

ve)

X

*Pus

ia s

p.

X

Pus

ia a

mab

i/is

(R

eeve

) X

X

P.

canc

ella

rioi

des

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (A

nton

) P

. co

nsan

guin

ea (

Ree

ve)

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

P.

/aul

a (R

eeve

) X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

""" _,

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x. (

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""'"

00

Ana

taha

n G

ugua

n P

agan

A

sunc

ion

Mau

g U

raca

s O

ther

R

emar

ks

P.

mic

rozo

nias

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (L

amar

ck)

P.'f

atri

arch

a/is

(G

mel

in)

X

X

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (U

SN

MN

H)

P.

spec

iosa

(R

eeve

) X

lmbr

icar

ia o

liva

efor

mis

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (S

wai

nson

) I.

pun

cta/

a (S

wai

nson

) X

S

arig

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Ter

ebra

aff

inis

Gra

y X

A

lso

in H

awai

i T

. cre

nula

ta (

Lin

ne)

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

T.

dim

idia

ta (

Lin

ne)

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(US

NM

NH

) s::

T. f

elin

a (D

illw

yn)

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

r;·

T.

laev

igat

a (G

ray)

X

.... 0

Has

tula

so/

ida

Als

o in

Haw

aii

;:;

X

"' "' (D

esha

yes)

r;·

I>

'

Has

tula

str

igil

lata

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (L

inne

) L

iena

rdia

sp.

X

L.

cf.

L. m

ighe

lsi

X

X

Ired

ale

and

Tom

lin

Car

inap

ex m

inut

issi

ma

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Gar

rett

) M

acte

ola

sege

sta

(Che

nu)

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Ired

alea

sp.

X

Tri

tono

turr

is s

p.

X

*Con

us a

ulic

us L

inne

X

C.

balt

eatu

s S

ower

by

X

Ala

mag

an

Agr

ihan

C.

band

anus

Hw

ass

X

X

Ala

mag

an

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*C.

cano

nicu

s R

odin

g X

A

grih

an

(US

NM

NH

)

C.

capi

tane

us L

inne

A

lam

agan

A

lso

in H

awai

i

C.

catu

s H

was

s X

X

A

grih

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

chal

daeu

s (R

odin

g)

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(US

NM

NH

)

C.

coro

natu

s (H

was

s)

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(US

NM

NH

)

C.

dist

ans

Hw

ass

X

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i

C.

ebra

eus

Lin

ne

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

jlav

idus

Lam

arck

X

X

X

X

X

A

grih

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

frig

idus

Ree

ve

X

Agr

ihan

C.

fulg

etru

m S

ower

by

X

C.

gene

rali

s L

inne

X

A

grih

an

<

(US

NM

NH

) 12-

C.

geog

raph

us L

inne

X

~

C.

impe

rial

is L

inne

X

A

grih

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

0

C. l

itog

lyph

us H

was

s X

X

X

A

lam

agan

A

lso

in H

awai

i ~

C.

livi

dus

Hw

ass

X

X

Ala

mag

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

9 X

~

C.

mag

nifi

cus

Ree

ve

X

X

'1

C.

mar

mor

eus

Lin

ne

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

:;;

CXI

C.

mil

es H

was

s X

X

X

X

X

A

lam

agan

A

lso

in H

awai

i ....,

Agr

ihan

C.

mil

iari

s H

was

s X

X

X

X

X

A

lam

agan

A

lso

in H

awai

i A

grih

an

C.

mor

elet

i C

ross

e X

X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

C.

mus

icus

Hw

ass

X

Agr

ihan

C.

nanu

s S

ower

by

X

X

X

X

X

X

Sar

igan

A

grih

an

C.

obsc

urus

Sow

erby

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

C.

pert

usus

Hw

ass

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

C.

puli

cari

us H

was

s X

X

X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i

C.

ratt

us H

was

s X

X

X

X

S

arig

an

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Ala

mag

an

Agr

ihan

-!:

> \0

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x. (

cont

inue

d)

V>

0

Ana

taha

n G

ugua

n P

agan

A

sunc

ion

Mau

g U

raca

s O

ther

R

emar

ks

C.

sang

uino

lent

us

X

X

Quo

y an

d G

aim

ard

~ sp

onsa

lis

Hw

ass

X

X

X

X

Sar

igan

A

lso

in H

awai

i A

grih

an

C.

stri

atus

Lin

ne

X

Agr

ihan

A

lso

in H

awai

i (U

SN

MN

H)

C.

tess

u/at

us B

orn

Agr

ihan

(U

SN

MN

H)

C.

tuli

pa L

inne

X

X

C.

vari

us L

inne

X

C.

virg

o L

inne

X

EU

TH

YN

EU

RA

~

Mic

rom

elo

guam

ensi

s A

lso

in H

awai

i <r

X

... 0 (Q

uoy

and

Gai

mar

d)

1::1 " "'

Smar

agdi

ne/l

a ca

lycu

lata

X

X

X

X

In

tert

idal

; al

so

<r I»

(Bro

deri

p an

d in

Haw

aii

Sow

er by

) H

amin

oea

cym

balu

m

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Quo

y an

d G

aim

ard)

H

amin

oea

sp.

X

X

X

Act

eoci

na h

awai

ensi

s X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i Pi

lsbr

y A

cteo

cina

sp.

X

Cyl

ichn

a sp

. X

Ret

usa

sp.

X

X

Aty

s sp

. X

Siph

onar

ia c

f. S.

X

In

tert

idal

guam

ensi

s (Q

uoy

and

Gai

mar

d)

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*S.

sir

ius

Pils

bry

X

X

X

Inte

rtid

al

Wil

/iam

ia r

adia

ta

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Pea

se)

Mel

ampu

s ca

stan

eus

X

X

X

Sari

gan

Als

o in

Haw

aii;

(Muh

lfel

d)

spra

y z o

ne

M. j

lavu

s (G

mel

in)

X

Spr

ay z

one

Mir

alda

cf.

M.

X

scop

ulor

um W

atso

n P

yram

idel

lida

e sp

. I

X

Pyr

amid

elli

dae

sp.

2 X

X

X

Pyr

amid

elli

dae

sp.

3 X

X

X

Julia

ex

quis

ita

Gou

ld

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

PO

LY

PLA

CO

PH

OR

A

<

Aca

ntho

pleu

ra g

emm

ata

X

X

X.

Inte

rtid

al

~

(Bla

in vi

lle)

(US

NM

NH

) ;o

Pol

ypla

coph

ora

sp.

X

0 § B

IVA

LV

IA

9 g-A

rea

ave

/lana

Lam

arck

X

X

"1

-A

. ve

ntr

icos

a L

amar

ck

X

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

"' 00

Aca

r di

vari

cata

A

lso

in H

awai

i ""

X

X

(Sow

er by

) B

arba

tia

desc

ussa

ta

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

(Sow

erby

) B

. am

ygdo

lum

tost

um

X

Rod

ing

B.

tene

lla R

eeve

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i M

odi

olus

aur

icul

atus

X

(Kra

uss)

Se

ptif

er e

xcis

us

X

X

(Wig

man

n)

"'

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tJ>

N

Ana

taha

n G

ugua

n P

agan

A

sunc

ion

Mau

g U

raca

s O

ther

R

emar

ks

Chl

amys

cor

usca

ns

X

In H

awai

i as

C.

c.

coru

scan

s (H

inds

) ha

wai

ensi

s C

. sq

uam

osa

(Gm

elin

) X

X

Sfto

ndyl

us s

p.

X

X

Lim

a a

nnul

ata

X

(Lam

arck

) L

. li

ma

(Lin

ne)

X

*Gly

cym

eris

sp.

X

Pin

ctad

a m

arga

riti

fera

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (L

inne

) P

inct

ada

sp.

X

lsog

nom

on p

erna

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (L

inne

) a: <r

I. i

ncis

um (

Con

rad)

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i ..., 0

Pyc

nodo

nte

num

ism

a X

::s .. "'

(Lam

arck

) (U

SN

MN

H)

;:;- "' C

ardi

ta v

arie

gata

X

(Bru

giue

re)

Tra

pezi

um o

blon

gum

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (L

inne

) F

imbr

ia f

imbr

iata

X

M

aug

reco

rd f

rom

(L

inne

) N

icol

(19

50)

Fim

bria

sp.

X

Cha

ma

iost

oma

(Con

rad)

X

X

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i C

ham

a sp

. X

A

grih

an

Tri

dacn

a m

axim

a R

odin

g X

X

S

arig

an

T.

squa

mos

a L

amar

ck

X

X

Lio

conc

ha h

iero

glyp

hica

X

A

lso

in H

awai

i (C

onra

d)

Gaf

rari

um p

ee ti

na tu

m

X

(Lin

ne)

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Per

ig/y

pta

reti

cu/a

ta

(Lin

ne)

Nes

obor

nia

bart

schi

C

hava

n Q

uidn

ipag

us p

alat

um

Ired

ale

Pin

guit

elli

na r

obus

ta

Han

ley

Tel

/ina

cru

cige

ra

Lam

arck

T

el/i

na s

p.

Erv

ilia

san

dwic

hens

is

(Sm

ith)

C

tena

bel

la (

Con

rad)

L

imop

sis

sp.

Car

dite

lla

cf.

C.

haw

aien

sis

Dal

l,

Bar

tsch

and

Reh

der

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Als

o in

Haw

aii

Als

o in

Haw

aii

~ - ~ t:l i -10 0

0

w

v.

w

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54 Micronesica

APPENDIX 2 Molluscs common in the southern Marianas but unknown from the northern

Marianas (only species living on hard bottom are included)

Species Intertidal Reef

Cellana radiata orienta/is (Pilsbry) + Patelloida sp. + Trochus ni/oticus (Linne) + Echininus viviparus Rosewater + Planaxis sulcatus (Born) + Alvinia crystal/ina (Garrett) + Cerithium sejunctum Iredale + C. zona tum Wood + C/ypeomorus alveolus (Hombron and Jacquinot) + C. bifasciatus (Sowerby) + C. moniliferus (Kiener) + Hipponix foliaceus (Quoy and Gaimard) + Cypraea annulus Linne + Cymatium gemmatum (Reeve) + Thais acu/eata Deshayes and Milne Edwards + Morula fiscella (Gmelin) + M. nodicostata (Pease) + M . squamosa (Pease) + Morula sp. + Muricodrupa fenestrata (Wood) + Nebularia cucumerina (Lamarck) + Strigatella decurtata (Reeve) +

Eldredge, L. G., R. T. Tsuda, P. Moore, M. Chernin, and S. Neudecker. 1977. A natural history of Maug, northern Mariana Islands. Univ. Guam Mar. Lab. Tech. Rept. 43. 87 p.

Emerson, W. K. 1978. Molluscs with Indo-Pacific faunal affinities in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Nautilus 92: 91- 96.

Emerson, W. K., and W.O. Cernohorsky. 1973. The genus Drupa in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(13): 801-863.

Grigg, R. W. 1981. Acropora in Hawaii. Part 2. Zoogeography. Pac. Sci. 35: 15-24. ltono, H . 1980. The genus Ga/axaura in Micronesia. Micronesica 16: 1-19. Kay, E. A. 1967. The composition and relationships of marine molluscan fauna of the Hawaiian

Islands. Venus, Japan. J. Malac. 25: 94-104. 1971. The littoral marine molluscs of Fanning Islands. Pac. Sci. 25(2): 260--281. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 653 p. 1980a. Little worlds of the Pacific: an essay on Pacific basin biogeography. Harold L. Lyon

Arboretum Lecture Number 9. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. 1980b. Micromolluscs: techniques and patterns in benthic marine communities. In

Environmental survey techniques for coastal water assessment conference proceedings. Water Resources Research Center and Sea Grant College Program, University of Hawaii.

1984. Patterns of speciation in the Indo-West Pacific. In Raven, P., F. Radovsky and S. H . Sohmer, Biogeography of the Tropical Pacific: Proceedings of a Symposium. Association of Systematics Collections and B. P. Bishop Museum.

Ladd, H . S., J. l.;Fracey, Jr., and G. Gross. 1970. Deep drilling on Midway Atoll. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. 680--A.

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Nicol, D. 1950. Recent species of the lucinoid pelecypod Fimbria. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 40: 82-87. Randall, J. E. 1982. Examples of antitropical and antiequatorial distribution of Indo-West Pacific

fishes. Pac. Sci. 35: 197- 209. Rehder, H. A. 1980. The marine molluscs of Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and Sala y Gomez.

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