Pacific Science a Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region

PACIFIC SCIENCE A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES OF THE PACIFIC REGION

VOLUME 38 APRIL 1984 NUMBER 2

CONTENTS

The Extinction of Endemic Species by a Program of Biological Control Bryan Clarke, James Murray, and Michael S. Johnson 97

Distribution and Ecology of Shallow-Water Crinoids at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, with an Annotated Checklist of Their Symbionts D.L. Zmarzly 105

A Note on the Occurrence of the Gold Spot Herring, Herklotsichthys quad- rimaculatus (Riippell) in Hawaii Wayne J. Baldwin 123

Redescription of the Pufferfish Torquigener brevipinnis (Regan) (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), with Description ofa New Species of Torquigener from Indonesia Graham S. Hardy 127

Picoplankton Growth Rates in Subtropical Hawaiian Embayments Paul K. Bienfang, Luis Morales, Karen Klein, and Ma sayuki Takahashi 134

A Contribution to the Trophic Biology ofthe Blue Marlin (Makaira nigricans Lacepede, 1802)in Hawaii Richard E. Brock 141

Bird Specimens from American Samoa Richard C. Banks 150

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