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Brongniart, 1800) in the Paris Natural History Museum
Zootaxa 4138 (2): 381–391 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2016 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4138.2.10 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:683BD945-FE55-4616-B18A-33F05B2FDD30 Rediscovery of the 220-year-old holotype of the Banded Iguana, Brachylophus fasciatus (Brongniart, 1800) in the Paris Natural History Museum IVAN INEICH1 & ROBERT N. FISHER2 1Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, UMR 7205 (CNRS, EPHE, MNHN, UPMC; ISyEB: Institut de Systéma- tique, Évolution et Biodiversité), CP 30 (Reptiles), 25 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris, France. E-mail: [email protected] 2U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego Field Station, 4165 Spruance Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92101-0812, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract The Paris Natural History Museum herpetological collection (MNHN-RA) has seven historical specimens of Brachylo- phus spp. collected late in the 18th and early in the 19th centuries. Brachylophus fasciatus was described in 1800 by Brongniart but its type was subsequently considered as lost and never present in MNHN-RA collections. We found that 220 year old holotype among existing collections, registered without any data, and we show that it was donated to MNHN- RA from Brongniart’s private collection after his death in 1847. It was registered in the catalogue of 1851 but without any data or reference to its type status. According to the coloration (uncommon midbody saddle-like dorsal banding pattern) and morphometric data given in its original description and in the subsequent examination of the type in 1802 by Daudin and in 1805 by Brongniart we found that lost holotype in the collections. -
Overseas Parcel Rates
Post and Telecommunications Department Amendments to Post Office Guide (1977) Overseas Postage Rates Effective 2010 March 8 PARCELS Airmail Airmail Surface Airlifted (SAL) Each Country Destination City Region For each 15 additional grams or part First 500g Up to 1kg Up to 3kg Up to 5kg Up to 10kg 500g or part thereof thereof Afghanistan Kabul Asia 180.00 1,100.00 370.00 1,350.00 2,130.00 3,190.00 4,830.00 Albania Tirana Europe 140.00 840.00 290.00 990.00 1,310.00 1,690.00 2,300.00 Algeria Algiers Africa 180.00 772.00 270.00 990.00 1,530.00 1,770.00 2,480.00 Anegada (BVI) The Settlement Caribbean 120.00 660.00 220.00 580.00 1,000.00 1,410.00 2,300.00 Angola Luanda Africa 180.00 870.00 280.00 1,040.00 1,490.00 2,000.00 2,880.00 Anguilla (BWI) Anguilla Caribbean 120.00 520.00 170.00 460.00 920.00 1,400.00 2,520.00 Antarctica Graham Land Antarctic 180.00 1,460.00 500.00 940.00 1,300.00 1,690.00 2,600.00 Antigua Antigua Caribbean 120.00 760.00 250.00 740.00 900.00 1,180.00 1,440.00 Argentina Buenos Aires America South 120.00 1,100.00 360.00 1,090.00 1,440.00 1,800.00 2,460.00 Armenia Yerevan Europe 140.00 800.00 280.00 910.00 1,220.00 1,570.00 2,180.00 Aruba (Netherlands Antilles) Oranjestad Caribbean 120.00 560.00 190.00 460.00 930.00 1,440.00 2,600.00 Ascension Island Georgetown Oceania 180.00 1,160.00 380.00 740.00 1,050.00 1,360.00 1,970.00 Australia Christmas Islands Oceania 180.00 740.00 260.00 960.00 1,380.00 1,860.00 2,766.00 Cocos (Keeling) Australia Australia 180.00 1,120.00 370.00 770.00 1,200.00 1,490.00 2,000.00 Islands Australia -
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THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY VOLUME 127 No.3 SEPTEMBER 2018 VOICES ON THE WIND, TRACES IN THE EARTH: INTEGRATING ORAL NARRATIVE AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN POLYNESIAN HISTORY PATRICK VINTON KIRCH 2018 Nayacakalou Medal Recipient University of California, Berkeley The Polynesian peoples have long been noted for their propensity to encode the rich traditions of their ancestors in oral narrative accounts, often memorised by priests or other specialists, and passed down orally from generation to generation. Anthropologists refer to these as oral traditions, oral history or oral narratives, although they are also often categorised as “legend” or “myth”, terms that tend to dismiss their value as witnesses of real human affairs—that is to say, of history. In this lecture, I focus on a particular form of Polynesian oral narrative or oral history—one that is fundamentally chronological in its structure in that it is explicitly tied to a genealogical framework. Now I confess that I am not a specialist in oral tradition, a subject that is sometimes subsumed under the discipline of “folklore”. I am by training and by practice, over nearly half a century now, an archaeologist first and foremost. But I am also an anthropologist who believes in the holistic vision of that discipline as conceived by such disciplinary ancestors as Alfred Kroeber and Edward Sapir at the beginning of the 20th century. While this may make me something of a living fossil in the eyes of younger scholars who hew to narrower subdisciplinary paths, my holistic training and predilections incline me to see the value in working across and between the different branches of anthropology. -
Australia-Oceania :: Wallis and Futuna (Overseas Collectivity of France) Introduction :: Wallis and Futuna
The World Factbook Australia-Oceania :: Wallis and Futuna (overseas collectivity of France) Introduction :: Wallis and Futuna Background: The Futuna island group was discovered by the Dutch in 1616 and Wallis by the British in 1767, but it was the French who declared a protectorate over the islands in 1842, and took official control of them between 1886 and 1888. Notably, Wallis and Futuna was the only French colony to side with the Vichy regime during World War II, a phase that ended in May of 1942 with the arrival of 2,000 American troops. In 1959, the inhabitants of the islands voted to become a French overseas territory and officially assumed this status in July 1961. Geography :: Wallis and Futuna Location: Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand Geographic coordinates: 13 18 S, 176 12 W Map references: Oceania Area: total: 142 sq km country comparison to the world: 221 land: 142 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Ile Uvea (Wallis Island), Ile Futuna (Futuna Island), Ile Alofi, and 20 islets Area - comparative: 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 129 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm Climate: tropical; hot, rainy season (November to April); cool, dry season (May to October); rains 2,500-3,000 mm per year (80% humidity); average temperature 26.6 degrees C Terrain: volcanic origin; low hills Elevation extremes: lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont Singavi (on Futuna) 765 m Natural resources: -
2006040108 Rapport WALLIS XP OK
EOM __......... INSTITUT D’ÉMISSION D’OUTRE-MER ÉTABLISSEMENT PUBLIC NATIONAL SIÈGE SOCIAL 5, rue Roland Barthes 75598 PARIS CEDEX 12 Les renseignements autres que monétaires publiés dans la présente étude ont été recueillis auprès de diverses sources extérieures à l’Institut d’émission et ne sauraient engager sa responsabilité. L’IEOM tient à remercier les diverses administrations publiques, les collectivités et les entreprises pour les nombreuses informations qu’elles lui ont communiquées. SYNTHESE ........................................................................................................................8 APERCU HISTORIQUE .................................................................................................. 11 PRESENTATION GEOGRAPHIQUE............................................................................. 13 L’EVOLUTION ECONOMIQUE......................................................................................... 15 SECTION 1.............................................................................................................................. 16 LES PRINCIPAUX INDICATEURS ECONOMIQUES .................................................... 16 § 1. La population ................................................................................................................. 16 1. Evolution et principales caractéristiques de la population ........................................... 16 2. Caractéristiques de la population.................................................................................. -
The Vascular Plants of the Horne and Wallis Islands' HAROLD ST
The Vascular Plants of the Horne and Wallis Islands' HAROLD ST. JOHN2 AND ALBERT C. SMITHs ABSTRACT: Recent botanical collections by H. S. McKee and Douglas E. Yen, together with the few available records from published papers, have been collated into a checklist of the known vascular plants of the Horne and Wallis Islands. Of 248 species here listed, 170 appear to be indigenous. Many of these are widespread, but 45 of them are limited to the Fijian Region (New Hebrides to Samoa) . Of the four known endemic species, Elatostema yenii St. John and Peperomia fllttmaensis St. John are herewith proposed as new, and a new combination in the fern genus Tbelypteris, by G. Brownlie, is included. THE HORNE AND WALLIS ISLANDS, forming Alofi, and Uvea, and it seems pertinent to bring the French Protectorat des Iles Wallis et Futuna, together the available data on the vascular plants lie to the northeast of Fiji, due west of Samoa, of the area. In the present treatment all the and due east of Rotuma. The Horne Islands in specimens obtained by McKee and Yen are clude Futuna (with about 25 square miles) and cited, and we also include as many Burrows Alofi (with about 11 square miles) , lying some specimens as could be located in the herbarium 150 miles northeast of Vanua Levu and about of the Bishop Museum. We have also listed 100 miles southwest of Uvea. Both Futuna and several species for which no herbarium vouch Alofi are high islands with fringing coral reefs; ers are at hand. These latter records are included the former attains an elevation of about 760 m on the basis of apparently reliable reports of in Mt. -
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ving DX ser com s m ar e u y n ROPEAN OUNDATION E i EU DX F .V. t 5 y 2 2 EUDXF • NEWSLETTER • JULY • 2012 • 5 1 1 y 0 e 2 ar – s E 6 UDXF 198 Correspondence: Hans P. Blondeel Timmerman, e-mail: [email protected] Bank Accounts of EUDXF Postbank Hannover PayPal account No.: 153 420 304 IBAN: DE29 2501 0030 0153 4203 04 to bank identifi er code: 250 100 30 BIC: PBNK DEFF [email protected] EUDXF newsletter JULY 2012 1 EUDXF NEWSLETTER JULY 2012 Dear EUDXF Members, We are getting used to it: Jan PA1TT Annual General Meeting I am happy to present to you this did an excellent job with our stand at July 2012 EUDXF newsletter and I Ham Radio in Friedrichshafen. As- On behalf of the European DX hope it will give you a lot of reading sisted by Alex PA1AW, Ragnar LA5HE, Foundation I would like to invite pleasure. Jan DJ8NK, Rein PAØR and Nicoletta, you to attend our Annual General Franz DK1II and Ronald PA3EWP he Meeting to be held in Bad Ben- HamRadio 2012 made sure that our booth served as theim during the a meeting point for all our members Deutsch-Niederländische and other visitors. Our eyeball QSO Amateurfunker Tage (DNAT). contest, in which participants had to eyeball as many DXCC entities led to The meeting will take place many interesting contacts. This year on Saturday I did the adjudication myself and ap- th parently I was a bit more strict on 25 August 2012 „residency” than the adjudication and will start committee of last year. -
Final Report
Overseas Countries and Territories: Environmental Profiles FINAL REPORT PART 2 – DETAILED REPORT SECTION D – PACIFIC REGION Consortium January 2015 EuropeAid/127054/C/SER/multi Request n° 2013/325768 DISCLAIMER This report has been prepared with the financial assistance of the European Commission. The views expressed herein are those of the consultants and therefore in no way reflect the official opinion of the European Commission Authors of the Report Contractor’s name and address Safège Consortium Jose de Bettencourt Gulledelle 92 Helena Imminga-Berends B-1200 Brussels - BELGIUM Project manager Camille Vassart on behalf of Prospect C&S Please consider the environment before printing this document Page 2 / 110 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ACAP Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels ACOR Association Française pour les Récifs Coralliens ACP Africa Caribbean and the Pacific ACS Association of Caribbean States AEPS Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy AFD French Development Agency AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme AMOC Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation AOSIS Alliance of Small Island States APEC Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation BAS British Antarctic Survey BEST EU Voluntary Scheme for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Territories of European Overseas BRGM Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières CAFF Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna CANARI Caribbean Natural Resources Institute CARICOM Caribbean Community CARIFORUM Caribbean Forum CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CCAMLR Convention -
Capture Section Report of Wallis and Futuna Fish Aggregating Device (FAD): Technical Assistance Project
Capture Section Report of Wallis and Futuna Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) Technical Assistance Projects 25 August to 15 September 1992; 7–11 November 1992; and 23–29 July 1995 by Steve Beverly Masterfisherman Aymeric Desurmont Masterfisherman and Satalaka Petaia Fisheries Development Officer © Copyright Secretariat of the Pacific Community 1999 The Secretariat of the Pacific Community authorises the production of this material, whole or in part, in any form, provided that appropriate acknowledgment is given. Original text: English Secretariat of the Pacific Community cataloguing-in-publication data Beverly, Steve Capture Section Report of Wallis and Futuna Fish Aggregating Device (FAD): Technical Assistance Project 1. Fish Aggregating Device (FAD)—Wallis and Futuna 2. Tuna Fishing—Wallis and Futuna 3. Fisheries—Equipment and Supplies I. Title II. Secretariat of the Pacific Community Coastal Fisheries Capture Section 639.2028 AACR2 ISBN 982 – 203 – 651 – 5 Secretariat of the Pacific Community BP D5 98848 Noumea Cedex New Caledonia Telephone: + 687 26 20 00 Facsimile: + 687 26 38 18 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.spc.org.nc/ Prepared for publication and printing at Secretariat of the Pacific Community headquarters Noumea, New Caledonia, 1999 ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Secretariat acknowledges with gratitude the assistance of the administration and staff of Territory’s Service de l’Economie Rurale et de la Pêche—SERP. Particular thanks are offered to, André Ledreau, Director; Daniel Tahimili, Fisheries Officer; Petelo Mafutuna, boat builder and boat pilot; and Bruno Mugneret who served as interpreter. Thanks are also offered to those on Futuna who assisted the survey project, particularly Jean Muro, Délégué du Gouverneur; Dominique Sage, of SERP; and boat owner–operator, Patrick Tortey. -
Wetlands of Wallis and Futuna 2017
WETLANDS OF WALLIS AND FUTUNA 2017 WETLANDS OF WALLIS AND FUTUNA 2017 Michael J. B. Dyer Akiko Hamada-Ano Mathilde Kraft Warren Lee Long Prepared with the financial assistance of Fonds Pacifique Copyright: The publishers and sponsors have waived copyright. ISBN: 978–982–04–0747–3 (print) 978–982–04–0748–0 (e-copy) CIP: 1. Wetlands – Directory – Wallis and Futuna. 2. Wetlands – Baseline inventories – Wallis and Futuna. I. Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). II. Title 333.918 961 6 Cover illustration: Lake Lalolalo © Vainuupo Jungblut Maps prepared by: Michael J.B. Dyer, Akiko Hamada-Ano and Ryan Wright. Typeset by: The Little Design Company, Wellington, New Zealand Citation: Dyer, M.J.B., Hamada-Ano, A., Kraft, M. and Lee Long, W.J. Wetlands of Wallis and Futuna – 2017. Apia, Samoa: SPREP, 2018. 1993 Publication: Scott DA, Asian Wetland Bureau, International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau. 1993. A directory of wetlands in Oceania. Slimbridge, U.K.: Kuala Lumpur: International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau; Asian Wetland Bureau. Available from: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), P.O. Box 240, Apia, Samoa Ph: +685 21929 Fax: +685 20231 Email: [email protected] www.sprep.org DISCLAIMER The contents of this report do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of SPREP, Service de l’Environnement or contributory organisations. The designations employed and the presentation of material do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of SPREP, Service de l’Environnement or contributory organisations concerning the legal status of any country, territory or city or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. -
Wallis and Futuna Islands Make up One of the Three French Overseas Territories in the Pacific
Wallis et Futuna Status report PainoVanai Introduction Wallis and Futuna Islands make up one of the three French overseas territories in the Pacific. They are located 2000 km north of New Caledonia and 3500 km northwest of Tahiti. The territory com prises two distinct archipelagoes situated 240 km apart : the Wallis Islands and the Hom Archipelago composed of Futuna and Alofi. The Wallis Islands are made up of the main island U vea and 19 islets scattered throughout a lagoon which is 24 km long and 15 km wide. Futuna is high island without a lagoon and with a few areas of cliffs, surrounded by a fringing reef of varying width. Separated from Futuna by a channel of I 800 m width, Alofi is a high volcanic island surrounded by a variably devel 2 2 oped fringing reef. The surface area of land is small (2 I 5 km ) and coral reefs occupy about 300 km ; immerged reefs are found to the north of Wallis Island. The Exclusive Economic Zone of the territory covers 300 OOO km2• The climate is characterized by elevated mean temperatures (26 to 27°C), an average relative humid ity and a typically tropical rainfall pattern. The territory has a population of 15 OOO, equivalent to a density of 60 inhabitants/km2. Most of the population (74.4% of the active unemployed population) exploit marine resources for a significant part of their diet. Among reef resources, a large part is made up by fish, and shells and crustaceans to a lesser degree. The recent initiatives in favor of coral reefs both authorities aboutthe importance of these environments in the future development of the territory. -
Wallis and Futuna : Status Report
7. WALLIS AND FUTUNA : STATUS REPORT PAINO VANAI 1 - INTRODUCTION Wallis and Futuna Islands make up one of the three French overseas territories in the Pacific. They are located 2000 km north of New Caledonia and 3500 km northwest of Tahiti. The territory comprises two distinct archipelagoes situated 240 km apart : the Wallis Islands and the Horn Archipelago composed of Futuna and Alofi (Figure 1). The Wallis Islands are made up of the main island Uvea and 19 islets scattered throughout a lagoon which is 24 km long and 15 km wide. Futuna is high island without a lagoon and with a few areas of cliffs, surrounded by a fringing reef of varying width. Separated from Futuna by a channel of 1800 m width, Alofi is a high volcanic island surrounded by a variably developed fringing reef. The surface area of land is small (215 km2) and coral reefs occupy about 300 km2 ; immerged reefs are found to the north of Wallis Island. The Exclusive Economic Zone of the territory covers 300,000 km2. The climate is characterized by elevated mean temperatures (26 to 27°C), an average relative humidity and a typically tropical rainfall pattern. The territory has a population of 15,000, equivalent to a density of 60 inhabitants/km2. Most of the population (74.4% of the active unemployed population) exploit marine resources for a significant part of their diet. Among reef resources, a large part is made up by fish, and shells and crustaceans to a lesser degree. The recent initiatives in favor of coral reefs both at the national as well as the international level have raised the awareness of local authorities about the importance of these environments in the future development of the territory.