. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 45 popular accounts of our research at Easter Island. Further fish collecting on two later trips,with Louis H. DiSalvo and Alfredo Cea Egana, increased the inshore fish fauna of the island to a mere 126 species (Randall and Cea Egana, 1984; DiSalvo et al., 1988), but the level of endemism is , hence second only to for the Hawaiian Islands in the Indo-Pacific region (Randall, 1998). I wondered what the fish fauna might be at other remote South Pacific islands such as Pitcairn and Rapa, and I was anxi
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 45 popular accounts of our research at Easter Island. Further fish collecting on two later trips,with Louis H. DiSalvo and Alfredo Cea Egana, increased the inshore fish fauna of the island to a mere 126 species (Randall and Cea Egana, 1984; DiSalvo et al., 1988), but the level of endemism is , hence second only to for the Hawaiian Islands in the Indo-Pacific region (Randall, 1998). I wondered what the fish fauna might be at other remote South Pacific islands such as Pitcairn and Rapa, and I was anxious to return to collect fishes in the Marquesas. I was fortunate to obtain another grant from the National Geographic Society in 1970 to take the 30-m schooner Westward, then attached to the Oceanic Institute, on a 7-month cruise to islands of southeastern Oceania (Fig. 13). Three other colleagues were included in the scientific party: Harald A. Rehder of the National Museum of Natural History for mollusks; Dennis M. Devaney of the Bishop Museum for other marine invertebrates; and Yosihiko Sinoto, senior archaeologist of the Bishop Museum. Crew members were selected who were both sailors and divers. I joined the vessel in Tahiti and we visited Mangareva, the Pitcairn Islands (an article on Ducie Atoll by Rehder and myself appeared in 1975 in Atoll Research Bulletin), Rapa, Austral Islands, Cook Islands, Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, and the Marquesas (popular articles by Randall, 1973b, 1974, 1978a, and 1980b). The fish fauna of Rapa was reported by Randall, Smith, and Feinberg (1990), of the Pitcairn Islands by Randall (1999). and of the Marquesas by Randall and Earle (2000). Much museum work w as needed after our return to Hawaii to curate the huge collections of fishes made during the cruise and to label and file the many color photographs taken of fishes. The majority of coral-reef fishes are so colorful that it seems criminal to illustrate them in black and white,
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