Summary of Toxic Conditions In the Gilbert Islands 
ONOTOA 
Lagoon 
44 
Unknown 
(more than 
40 years 
ago) 
1958 1962 
rv. 
+ 
i— i 
1 
rv. 
rv. 
NIKUNAU 
Reef 
44 
Unknown 
(more than 
40 years 
ago) 
1959 1962 
+ 
1 
4 
+ 
4 
rv. 
BERU 
Lagoon 
49 
Unknown 
(more than 
40 years 
ago) 
1958 1962 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
n - 
+ 
r*-. 
rv. 
4 
TABITEUEA 
Lagoon 
r> 
"T 
Unknown 
(1919?) 
1958 1962 
rv. 
i 
rv. 
4- 
rv. 
+ 
+ 
rv. 
+ 
+ 
+ 
m 
4 
rv. 
+ 
rv. 
rv. 
NONOUTI 
Lagoon 
50 
Unknown 
(1890?) 
1962 
+ 
H-! 
- 
rv. 
rv. 
1 
rv. 
rv. 
ARUNUKA 
Lagoon 
53 
Unknown; 
but 
resurgence 
1929-37 
1958 1962 
4- 
1-1 
+ 
o. 
i 
rv. 
rv. 
rv. 
ABEMAMA 
S. 
Lagoon 
57 
Unknown 
(more than 
50 years) 
1958 1962 
rv. 
rv. 
ABEMAMA 
N. 
Lagoon 
57 
Unknown 
(1917?) 
1958 1962 
+ 
+ + 
4 
rv. 
+ 
rv. 
rv. 
4- 
+ 
N-l 
+ 
j . 
+ 
+ 
+ 
TARAWA 
Lagoon 
70 
Unknown; 
resurgence 
1944- 
1958 1962 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
4- 
4- 
+ 
41 
+ 
+ 
u 
~r 
4 
MARAKEI 
Lagoon 
79 
1946 
1958 1962 
f 
+ 
-X- 
-r 
+ 
H- 
+ + 
1 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
4 - 
+ 
4 
+ 
+ 
+ 
4"; 
+ 
+ 
4 
BUTARITARI 
Lagoon 
i r\ 
(N 
About 
1948 
1958 1961 
+ 
4 
4 
1 
' + 
■ 
4- 
+ 
+ 
4 
rv. 
4 - 
4 
ISLAND 
TYPE 
ANNUAL AVERAGE RAINFALL 
(IN INCHES) 
YEAR TOXICITY 
COMMENCED 
COMMONEST 
VERNACULAR 
NAME 
Ku 
Mon 
Kuau 
Kuaurang 
Maneku 
Nimanang 
Nrekereke 
Rekimoa 
Bukitakeiau 
Bakati 
Tauman, 
Aurua 
Aongo 
Riba 
ECoinawa 
SPECIES TOXIC 
IN YEAR STATED 
Holocentrus spp. 
(Gunther) 
Myripristis spp. 
(Cuvier) 
Epinephelus merra (Bloch) , 
and allied species 
E. corallicola 
(Cuv. & Val.) 
E. fuscoguttatus 
(Forskal) 
Cephalopholis argus 
(Bloch & Schneider) 
C. min eat us 
(Forskal) 
Plectropomus truncatus 
(Fowler) 
Variola louti 
( Forskal ) 
Promicrops lanceolatus 
( Bloch ) 
Caranx spp. 
(undetermined species) 
C. lugubris 
(Poey) 
Acanthurus spp. 
(undetermined species) 
A. trios tegus 
( Linnaeus ) 
