Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . WASHINGTON, B.C. 



Volume 124 1968 Number 3641 



Stoinatopod Crustacea from Madagascar 



By Raymond B. Manning 



Chairman, Department of Invertebrate Zoology 



This report is based on four different collections of stomatopods 

 from the island of Madagascar (Malagasy Republic) and adjacent 

 islands, including the Comoro Islands (Comores) and He Europa. 

 Two of the collections were made available for study by M. Michel 

 Pichon, Centre d'Oceanographie et des Peches, Nosy Be, Madagascar, 

 and by A. G. Humes, Boston University, at that time the field chief 

 on Madagascar for the International Indian Ocean Expedition. The 

 third collection was made by several individuals under the auspices 

 of the U.S. Program in Biology, International Indian Ocean Expedi- 

 tion; most of this series of specimens was collected by J. Rudloe 

 while at Madagascar on assignment from the Smithsonian Institution 

 Oceanographic Sorting Center. The fourth and most important 

 collection was assembled by Alain Crosnier, now at the Centre 

 d'Oceanographie et des Peches, Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, 

 over a period of several years while working at the Centre d'Oceano- 

 graphie et des Peches (O.R.S.T.O.M.) in Nosy Be, Madagascar. 



Together, all of these materials indicate the richness of the stomato- 

 pod fauna of Madagascar. The collections reported herein include 28 

 species, approximately one-half of the stomatopods known from the 

 western Indian Ocean, of which six species are described as new. All 

 10 species previously recorded from Madagascar are represented in 

 the collections reported in this paper. 



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