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MICRONESICA A Journal of the University of Guam DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES OF MICRONESIA AND RELATED AREAS

Vol. 23, No. 2, December 1990

ISSN 0026-279X CONTENTS Anthropology

93-118 Chamorro fish names ..................................... A.M. Kerr 119-130 Marital infertility and primary sterility in a native Pacific Islands population ................................................. J. H. Underwood

Biology 131- 138 Ocean temperature structure and the seasonality of pelagic fish species near Guam, Mariana Islands ..................... S. S. Amesbury & M. Babin 139-152 Noteworthy Micronesian plants. 6 ........... F. R. Fosberg & L. Raulerson 153-166 Abundance and habitat use of reptiles on Rota, Mariana Islands ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. J. Wiles, G. H. Rodda, T. H. Fritts & E. M. Taisacan 167-180 The mammals ofTinian, Mariana Islands ............................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. J. Wiles, A. B. Amerson, Jr. & R. E. Beck, Jr.

Note 181- 190 New records of marine algae from the Philippines ........... . .......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. A. West & H. P. Calumpong 191 - 194 Book reviews: Weekend Warriors: Alcohol in a Micronesian Culture and Silent Voices: Women and Prohibition in Truk (Reviewed by D.H. Rubinstein) Coral Reefs of the World, vol. 3 (Reviewed by R. H. Richmond) Marine Plants of the Caribbean (Reviewed by C. S. Lobban)

MICRONESICA A Journal of the University of Guam Devoted to the Natural Sciences in Micronesia Founded by Benjamin C. Stone in 1964

EDITOR: CHRISTOPHER s. LOBBAN The Marine Laboratory, University of Guam UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923, U.S.A.

Editorial Board: C. E. BIRKELAND, The Marine Laboratory, University of Guam L. G. ELDREDGE, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

F. R. FosBERG, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. M. J. LEVIN, Population Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. M. MARSHALL, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City J. E. RANDALL, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii R . H. RICHMOND, The Marine Laboratory, University of Guam D. H. RuBINSTEIN, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam B. C. STONE, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii J. H. UNDERWOOD, Dept. Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson

MICRONESICA is a forum for original research in the fields of physical and social anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology; systematic and ecological botany and zoology, marine sciences, and related disciplines concerned primarily with Micronesia and adjacent areas.

MICRONESICA is published twice a year (June and December) by the University of Guam. Subscription prices: Individual $15 per volume, Institutional $25 per volume (including any Supplement). Views expressed by the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the University, the editors or printers.

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MICRONESICA Journal of the University of Guam DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES OF MICRONESIA AND RELATED AREAS

Volume 23

1990 Edited by Christopher S. Lobban

MICRONESICA Volume 23, 1990

CONTENTS No. 1

1-4 5-13

15-25 27-40 41-66

67-89

91-92

Biology New and noteworthy Cook Island plants.................. F. R. Fosberg Long-distance dispersal: the case for allopolyploid Glycine tabacina (Labill.)

Benth. and G. tomentella Hayata in the West-Central Pacific ............ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. Hymowitz, R. J. Singh & R. P. Larkin A crustacean endoparasite (Ascothoracida: Synagogidae) of an antipatharian from Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. J. Grygier Periphyton, excluding diatoms and desmids, from Yap, Caroline Islands .... . . . . . C. S. Lobban, F. K. Daily, W. A. Daily, R. W. Hoshaw & M. Schefter Terrestrial vertebrates of the Ngerukewid Islands Wildlife Preserve, Palau Islands ................................... G. J. Wiles & P. J. Conry Note New migrant and vagrant bird records for the Mariana Islands, 1978-1988 ... P. 0. Glass, J. D. Reichel, T. 0. Lemke, R. B. Clapp, G. J. Wiles, D. T. Aldan & T. K. Pratt Book reviews: Field Guide to the Birds of Palau (Reviewed by G. J. Wiles) Micronesian Reef Fishes (Reviewed by S. S. Amesbury)

No.2 Anthropology 93-118 C}lamorro fish names .................................... A.M. Kerr 119-130 Marital infertility and primary sterility in a native Pacific Islands population ................................................ J. H. Underwood Biology 131-138 Ocean temperature structure and the seasonality of pelagic fish species near Guam, Mariana Islands .................... S. S. Amesbury & M. Babin 139-152 Noteworthy Micronesian plants. 6 .......... F. R. Fosberg & L. Raulerson 153-166 Abundance and habitat use of reptiles on Rota, Mariana Islands .......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. J. Wiles, G. H. Rodda, T. H. Fritts & E. M. Taisacan 167- 180 The mammals of Tin ian, Mariana Islands ............................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. J. Wiles, A. B. Amerson, Jr. & R. E. Beck, Jr.

Note 181-190 New records of marine algae from the Philippines ..................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. A . West & H. P. Calumpong

191-194 Book reviews: Weekend Warriors: Alcohol in a Micronesian Culture and Silent Voices: Women and Prohibition in Truk (Reviewed by D. H. Rubinstein); Coral Reefs of the World, vol. 3 (Reviewed by R. H. Richmond); Marine Plants of the Caribbean (Reviewed by C. S. Lobban)