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The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology CONTENTS 2013 ZOOLOGY THE RAFFLES BULLETIN OF (continued from front cover) On a new species of freshwater crab of the genus Ovitamon Ng & Takeda, 1992 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Panay Island, The Raffles Bulletin Philippines. Daniel Edison M. Husana, Tomoki Kase and Peter K. L. Ng ................................................................................................. 651 Synonymy of Spicatella Thibaud, 2002 with Delamarephorura Weiner & Najt, 1999, and description of two new species (Collembola: Tullbergiidae). Charlene Janion, Louis Deharveng and Wanda Maria Weiner ......................................................................................... 657 Guide to the aquatic Heteroptera of Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. XI. Infraorder Nepomorpha—Families Naucoridae and Aphelocheiridae. of Zoology Dan A. Polhemus and John T. Polhemus ....................................................................................................................................................... 665 A review of the genus Arocatus from Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Cuiqing Gao, Előd Kondorosy and Wenjun Bu ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 687 A taxonomic review of common but little known crickets from Singapore and the Philippines (Insecta: Orthoptera: Eneopterinae). Tony An International Journal of Southeast Asian Zoology Robillard and Ming Kai Tan ........................................................................................................................................................................... 705 Taxonomic notes on the species of the genus Malayepipona Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from northern Vietnam, with description of three new species. Nguyen Thi Phuong Lien and James M. Carpenter ...................................................................... 727 Three new species of freshwater halfbeaks (Teleostei: Zenarchopteridae: Hemirhamphodon) from Borneo. Heok Hui Tan and Kelvin K. P. CONTENTS Lim .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 735 Editorial. Tan H. H. .................................................................................................................................................................................... i Review of Stiphodon (Gobiidae: Sicydiinae) from western Sumatra, with description of a new species. Ken Maeda and Heok Hui Tan ..... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 749 TAXONOMY AND SYSTEMATICS Nomenclature and identity of the tongue soles Paraplagusia bilineata, “Cynoglossus bilineatus” and Paraplagusia blochii (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes). Maurice Kottelat ............................................................................................................................................................. 763 A first record of freshwater sponge from Singapore and redescription of Eunapius conifer (Annandale, 1916) (Haplosclerida: Spongillina: Spongillidae). Swee-Cheng Lim and Koh-Siang Tan ..........................................................................................................................453 CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY A taxonomic review of the genus Asteromorpha Lütken (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalidae). Masanori Okanishi, Jennifer M. Recovery of litter and soil invertebrate communities following swidden cultivation in Sarawak, Malaysia. Megumi Yoshima, Yoko Takematsu, Olbers and Toshihiko Fujita .................................................................................................................................................................461 Aogu Yoneyama and Michiko Nakagawa ...................................................................................................................................................... 767 Bravohollisia geruti, new species (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) from Pomadasys hasta (Osteichthyes: Haemulidae) of Peninsular The nuisance midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) of Singapore’s Pandan and Bedok reservoirs. P. S. Cranston, Y. C. Ang, A. Heyzer, R. B. H. Malaysia. W. B. Tan and L. H. S. Lim ..................................................................................................................................................481 Lim, W. H. Wong, J. M. Woodford and R. Meier ........................................................................................................................................ 779 Revision of Anteropora (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) and descriptions of five new species from stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) Diversity and assemblage patterns of juvenile and small sized fishes in the nearshore habitats of the Gulf of Thailand. Surasak Sichum, in Borneo. Kendra R. Mojica, Kirsten Jensen and Janine N. Caira ................................................................................................491 Pitiwong Tantichodok and Tuantong Jutagate.............................................................................................................................................. 795 A new species of Phalium Link, 1807 (Gastropoda: Tonnoidea: Cassidae) from the Sunda Shelf. S. K. Tan, H. E. Ng and L. H. S. A mark-recapture study of a dog-faced water snake Cerberus schneiderii (Colubridae: Homalopsidae) population in Sungei Buloh Wetland Nguang ....................................................................................................................................................................................................507 Reserve, Singapore. C. K. Chim and C. H. Diong ..........................................................................................................................................811 Saging cebuana, a new genus and species of taeniacanthid copepod (Cyclopoida) parasitic on a filefish (Actinopterygii: Monacanthidae) Ornithology of the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia. Frederick H. Sheldon, Clare E. Brown, Mustafa Abdul Rahman, Guan collected from Cebu Island, the Philippines. Daisuke Uyeno, Danny Tang and Kazuya Nagasawa ................................................515 Khoon Tay and Robert G. Moyle ................................................................................................................................................................... 827 Anostraca catalogus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). D. Christopher Rogers ...........................................................................................525 Variation in the nucleolar organiser regions of the long-tailed giant rats (Rodentia, Muridae, genus Leopoldamys) in Malaysia. Hoi Sen Yong, A new ingolfiellid amphipod crustacean from sandy beaches of the Gura Ici islands, western Halmahera (north Moluccas). R. Vonk Phaik Eem Lim, Daicus M. Belabut and Praphathip Eamsobhana ........................................................................................................... 855 and D. Jaume ..........................................................................................................................................................................................547 Camera-trapping survey of mammals in and around Imbak Canyon Conservation Area in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Henry Bernard, Abdul Three isopod parasites (Bopyridae: Pseudioninae), including two new species, of hermit crabs from the South China Sea. Jianmei An, Hamid Ahmad, Jedediah Brodie, Anthony J. Giordano, Maklarin Lakim, Rahimatsah Amat, Sharon Koh Pei Hue, Lee Shan Khee, Xinzheng Li and John C. Markham ....................................................................................................................................................561 Augustine Tuuga, Peter Titol Malim, Darline Lim-Hasegawa, Yap Sau Wai and Waidi Sinun ............................................................. 861 Two new species of Acutigebia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gebiidea: Upogebiidae) from the South China Sea. Wenliang Liu and Ruiyu Insights into the spatial and temporal ecology of the Sunda clouded leopard Neofelis diardi. Andrew J. Hearn, Joanna Ross, Daniel Pamin, Liu............................................................................................................................................................................................................571 Henry Bernard, Luke Hunter and David W. Macdonald ............................................................................................................................ 871 Verification of four species of the mud lobster genus Thalassina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gebiidea: Thalassinidae) using molecular and Population estimates and distribution patterns of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) and Indo-Pacific finless porpoises (Neophocaena morphological characters. Moh H. H., Chong V. C., Lim P. E., Tan J. and Daley G. ......................................................................577 phocaenoides) in the Kuching Bay, Sarawak. Gianna Minton, Cindy Peter, Anna Norliza Zulkifli Poh, Jenny Ngeian, Gill Braulik, Philip S. Hammond and Andrew Alek Tuen ...........................................................................................................................................................
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