Contributions to the Knowledge of the Alpheid Shrimp 
of the Pacific Ocean 
Part X. Collections from Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa 1 
Albert H Banner and Dora M. Banner 2 
This is the second paper in a series on the 
collections made by the senior author in 1954 
while on a Yale University-University of Ha- 
waii-Bishop Museum Grant; it deals with those 
shrimps collected in the Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa 
archipelagoes. 
The study of these shrimps was supported in 
part by a series of grants from the National 
Science Foundation (G-1754, G-3863, G-9937). 
The collection in 1963 was made in part under 
National Science Foundation Grant GB-796, 
and under a special grant from the University 
of Hawaii. 
This paper was prepared in final form in 
December 1961, complete with plates, maps, 
locality records, etc., but it was destroyed in the 
fire at the Hawaii Marine Laboratory (see Ban- 
ner and Banner, 1962). Lost also in the fire 
were the specimens in the collection and the 
field notes. The sections of the paper dealing 
with Fiji, Tonga, and Western Samoa were sal- 
vaged in part from the partially burned original 
study notes and in part from the first draft of 
the text; for American Samoa we were able to 
make another collection which partially replaced 
the lost collection. Certain ambiguities in the 
preliminary notes could not be resolved for this 
final completed paper by reference to the origi- 
nal specimens, as is normally done. More harm- 
ful to the completed study were the loss of the 
plates and the data on collections. It is with 
many misgivings that we publish this paper, 
especially the descriptions of new species, with- 
out the specimens, plates, and data; however, 
because the alpheid fauna of the central Pacific 
is so little known, we felt that this paper would 
be of use to future workers. It is hoped that 
1 Contribution No. 239, Hawaii Institute of Marine 
Biology. Manuscript received January 22, 1963- 
2 Department of Zoology and Entomology, Univer- 
sity of Hawaii, Honolulu. 
when other workers find specimens agreeing 
with our new species and subspecies from near 
the type areas, they will designate them as neo- 
types and deposit them in a museum or other 
institution. 
During the summer of 1963 we were able to 
spend about two weeks in collecting again from 
Tutuila. On this second trip we revisited some 
of the places where collections were made in 
1954 and also collected from localities not 
reached on the previous trip. 
The studies made with this grant attempted 
to investigate the zoogeographic distribution 
of the alpheid shrimp in the central Pacific — 
presuming that with extensive sampling an ac- 
curate picture of the shrimp fauna of an archi- 
pelago could be obtained. The two series of 
collections made nine years apart on the small 
island of Tutuila in American Samoa give an 
opportunity to assess the reliability of our sam- 
plings as indicators of the total alpheid fauna. 
In 1954 the collections were made at Tutuila 
along the windward (southern) coast on the 
narrow fringing reefs and within Pago Pago 
harbor; then, to complete the picture of the 
Samoan alpheids, further collections were made 
along the lee or northern coast of Upolu, on the 
wide fringing to barrier reef. During the 1963 
trip to Tutuila (it was not possible to make 
additional collections on Upolu) some of the 
localities sampled in 1954 were again visited. 
However, no collection could be made at some 
of the earlier localities because of changes in 
topography. For example, Tafuna in 1954 was 
a sandy beach and in 1963 it was an airport. 
Furthermore, because better transportation was 
available, additional localities were visited. 
Therefore, the two collections are not strictly 
comparable, but they give some indication of 
how well the fauna was sampled in each case. 
The collections are summarized in Table 1. 
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