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Bulletin of the Auckland Museum

Volume 20 (2015)

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Volume 20 (2015)

Kermadec Biodiscovery Expedition 2011
Edited by Thomas Trnski and Heidi Ann Schlumpf

A two meter female Galapagos Shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) on the western side of South Meyer Island.

A two meter female Galapagos Shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) on the western side of South Meyer Island.

© 2011 Richard Robinson.Photograph taken by Richard Robinson, www.depth.co.nz during the Kermadec Islands Biodiscovery Expedition, May 2011.

Table of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements

Articles

Introduction to the Kermadec Biodiscovery Expedition 2011
Thomas Trnski and Peter J. de Lange
Annotated checklist of the marine fauna and flora of the Kermadec Islands Marine Reserve and northern Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand
Clinton A.J. Du y and Shane T. Ahyong
Marine macroalgae of the Kermadec Islands
Wendy A. Nelson and Jennifer L. Dalen
Lichen notes from the Kermadec Islands. I. Lobariaceae
Peter de J. Lange and David J. Galloway
Lichen notes from the Kermadec Islands. II. Ramalina
Peter de J. Lange and Dan J. Blanchon
A checklist of mosses of the Kermadec Islands
Peter de J. Lange and Jessica E. Beever
Recent vegetation succession and flora of Macauley Island, southern Kermadec Islands
Peter de J. Lange
The flora and vegetation of L’Esperance Rock, southern Kermadec Islands
Peter de J. Lange
The flora and vegetation of Cheeseman Island, southern Kermadec Islands
Peter de J. Lange
Pittosporum rangitahua sp. nov. from Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, northern New Zealand
Ewen K. Cameron and William R. Sykes
Marine invertebrates collected during the Kermadec Biodiscovery Expedition 2011
Stephen J. Keable and Amanda L. Reid
Kermadec Islands sponge biodiversity: A review and description of a new species, Suberea meandrina sp. nov. (Demospongiae, Verongida, Aplysinellidae)
Michelle Kelly, Satya Amirapu, Sadie Mills, Mike Page and Henry Reiswig
Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa: Hydroidolina) from the Kermadec Islands
Jeanette E. Watson
Scleractinian corals and crown-of-thorns seastars of the Kermadec Islands
Zoe T. Richards and Libby Liggins
Description of Nassarius berniceae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nassariidae): A new species of shallow water whelk endemic to the Kermadec Islands
Richard C. Willan and Desmond L. Beechey
Octopuses of the Kermadec Islands: Discovery and description of a new member of the Octopus ‘vulgaris’ complex (O. jollyorum sp. nov.) and the first description of a male Callistoctopus kermadecensis (Berry, 1914)
Amanda L. Reid and Nerida G. Wilson 349
Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) collected by the Kermadec Biodiscovery Expedition 2011, with a new subfamily of Paratanaidae: Metatanainae
Graham J. Bird
Decapod crustacea of the Kermadec Biodiscovery Expedition 2011
Shane T. Ahyong
The Kermadec Islands terrestrial invertebrate fauna: Observations on the taxonomic distribution and island biogeography
Warren G.H. Chinn
Recent collections of fishes at the Kermadec Islands and new records for the region
Thomas Trnski, Clinton A.J. Du y, Malcolm P. Francis, Mark A. McGrouther, Andrew L. Stewart, Carl D. Struthers and Vincent Zintzen
New records, checklist and biogeography of Kermadec Islands’ coastal fishes
Malcolm P. Francis and Clinton A.J. Duffy
Predation on seabirds by large teleost fishes at offshore islands in northern New Zealand
Clinton A.J. Du y and Graeme A. Taylor
Observation and identification of marine mammals during two recent expeditions to the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
Clinton A.J. Du y, C. Scott Baker and Rochelle Constantine
Obsidian from Macauley Island: A New Zealand connection
Louise Furey, Callen Ross-Sheppard and Kath E. Prickett