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Family: HIPPOLYTIDAE 



Genus: SARON Thallwitz 



Saron niarmoratus (Olivier) 



Plate 51 



Type: M. Olivier's type came from Oceania, probably New 

 Holland, and is deposited in the Paris Museum. 



Distribution: This species has a wide distribution, being 

 found in the Red Sea and along the eastern shores of Africa down 

 to Natal ; eastward from the Red Sea through the Persian Gulf, 

 the shores of India and Ceylon, the Philippines, the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, the Dutch East Indies, and many archipelagoes in Oceania, 

 eastward to the Hawaiian Islands and the Paumotus. The follow- 

 ing localities for it have been recorded: Red Sea (Heller, Nobili) ; 

 Red Sea at 16 stations (Balss) ; Massaouah (Nobili) ; Upanga- 

 Riff, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar (Ortmann) ; Mozambique (Bianconi, 

 Hilgendorf ) ; Mauritius (Kemp) ; Arabian coast, Gulf of Per- 

 sia, Station 25 (Nobili) ; Rubber Island Reef, Persian Gulf 

 (Kemp) ; India: Port Canning, Ganges Delta; Kilakara, Pamban, 

 also Ramnad District; South India, coral reef; Karachi, mouth 

 of the River Indus, Andaman Islands (Kemp) ; Ceylon (Pearson) ; 

 Cebu, P. I. (Thallwitz) ; Amboina (Zehntner) ; Temate, Pulo 

 Edam Island and Nordwachter Island (de Man) ; Bali (Boone) ; 

 Malay Archipelago (Dana, Heller, de Man, Borradaile) ; Queens- 

 land, Australia (Kemp) ; Falcon Island, Queensland (Boone) ; 

 Australia (Haswell, H. M. Edwards) ; Nivani, Louisades, British 

 New Guinea, Funafuti (Borradaile) ; Funafuti Atoll, Ellice 

 Islands (Whitelegge) ; New Holland (H. M. Edwards) ; along the 

 shores of Vitu Lebu, Fiji Islands; Sandwich Islands (Dana); 

 Hawaiian Islands, Randall, "very common" (Edmondson) ; Pal- 

 myra Island, French Frigate Shoals, Johnston Island and Wake 

 Island (Edmondson) ; Rikitea (Nobili) ; Marquesas Islands 

 (Boone). 



Material examined: One ovigerous female and one larger 

 female taken in coral reef at Anaho Bay, Nuka Hiva Island, Mar- 

 quesas Islands, August 10, 1931. One specimen from coral at 

 Falcon Island, Palm Islands, Queensland, October 7, 1931. One 

 ovigerous female taken from coral, Temukus Roads, Bali, Dutch 

 East Indies, October 25, 1931. One very young specimen also 

 from Temukus Roads, October 25, 1931. 



