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Fig. 1 . Map of the Hawaiian Islands showing areas of collection on Oahu and Kauai. Black circles repre- 
sent areas where Gonodactylus falcatus was found; open squares represent G. hendersoni\ and open circles 
indicate collecting sites where no stomatopods were found. 
Islands (Odhner, 1923), Saipan in the Marian- 
nas (Holthuis, 1953), Truk in the Carolines 
(Komai, 1927), Eniwetok in the Marshalls 
(University of Hawaii collections), the Gilbert 
Islands (Holthuis, 1953), Rotuma (Borradaile, 
1898), Fiji (Odhner, 1923), Samoa (Bigelow, 
1931) and Hawaii (Kinzie, 1965). 
morphological variations: As Manning 
(1967:3) mentioned, the qualitative aspects of 
the telson morphology are important as tax- 
onomic characters in this genus. Attempts to 
compare statistically the Hawaiian population 
with populations from other areas gave no con- 
clusive indications of affinities of the Hawaiian 
population. This was due to the small size of 
the samples from most of the areas studied and 
the large variance of the statistics compared. 
Qualitative comparisons indicated that the 
Hawaiian specimens had more inflated and 
rounded telson carinae than comparable individ- 
uals from Samoa, Palau, the Philippines, and the 
Red Sea. On the other hand G. falcatus from 
Queensland has slightly more inflated carinae 
than comparable Hawaiian specimens. 
Serene (1954) has recognized G. falcatus 
