Annotated Checklist of the Fishes of Wake Atoll

Abstract

This study documents a total of 321 fishes in 64 families occurring at Wake Atoll, a coral atoll located at 19 0 17' N, 166 0 36' E. Ten fishes are listed by genus only and one by family; some of these represent undescribed species. The first published account of the fishes of Wake by Fowler and Ball in 192 5 listed 107 species in 31 families. This paper updates 54 synonyms and corrects 20 misidentifications listed in the earlier account. The most recent published account by Myers in 1999 listed 122 fishes in 33 families. Our field surveys add 143 additional species records and 22 new family records for the atoll. Zoogeographic analysis indicates that the greatest species overlap of Wake Atoll fishes occurs with the Mariana Islands. Several fish species common at Wake Atoll are on the IUCN Red List or are otherwise of concern for conservation. Fish populations at Wake Atoll are protected by virtue of it being a U.S. military base and off limits to commercial fishing.

First Specimen-based Record of <i>Ammolabrus dicrus</i> (Perciformes: Labridae) from Japanese Waters, with Notes on Morphological Ontogenetic Changes and Geographic Variation

“…The species has been recorded from Oahu, Hawaiian Islands (type locality; Randall and Carlson 1997), Wake Atoll (Lobel and Lobel 2004) and the southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Senou et al 2007;Kuiter 2012;Nishiyama and Motomura 2012;Kato 2016; this study) (Fig. 3).…”

“…Voucher specimens of A. dicrus have been collected only from Oahu (Randall and Carlson 1997), Wake Atoll (Lobel and Lobel 2004) and Taketomi Island (this study), with several underwater photographs of the species having been taken in the Hawaiian Islands and southern Ryukyu Islands (Randall and Carlson 1997;Randall 2007;Senou et al 2007;Kuiter 2012;Nishiyama and Motomura 2012;Kato 2016). Randall and Carlson (1997) also mentioned that a small school of probable A. dicrus was observed over sand in 15 m at Chichi Island, Ogasawara Islands in 1991, subsequently reported erroneously as "Marshall Islands" by Lobel and Lobel (2004: 85 Technology, Japan; and the "Island Research" project by Kagoshima University.…”

“…Ammolabrus dicrus, originally described by Randall and Carlson (1997) as a new monotypic genus and species, was based on 14 specimens (21.0-94.1 mm standard length) from Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, with a single specimen (BPBM 38592) subsequently recorded by Lobel and Lobel (2004) from Wake Atoll (Mundy 2005;Randall 2007). Although underwater photographs of A. dicrus from the southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan were recently published by Nishiyama and Motomura (2012) and Kato (2016), no Japanese examples of the species had been collected.…”

Inshore Fishes of Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef

“…The U.S. equatorial Pacific island numbers are at the low end of the range for localities investigated to date with the notable exception of Easter Island, the most distant Indo-Pacific location for which numbers were available (129: . Other islands with similarly low numbers of shore-fish species include, by increasing numbers of species, Midway Atoll (266: Myers, 1999), Rapa (268: Randall et al, 1990), Johnston Atoll (285: Kosaki et al, 1991;Myers, 1999), Wake Atoll (321: Lobel and Lobel, 2004), and the Pitcairn Islands (335; Randall, 1999c). The Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) have only 396 shore-fish species recorded, but that archipelago has not been resurveyed since Randall (1955a) and more species will undoubtedly be found there with more intensive sampling.…”

Globalizing Public Interest Law

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