Shallow-water, coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridae) of Fiji

Abstract

Eighty species of marine gammaridean Amphipoda are currently known from Fiji . During a three month period in late 1979. 77 species were collected. and these are described and figured . Keys for the identification of all known Fijian species are included . Fiji appears to share most of its taxa with Hawaii. Indonesia and the Indian Ocean. and few with eastern Polynesia. but this may reflect collecting intensity . Few taxa are shared with New Zealand . Forty percent of Fijian taxa are new to science . Forty-one percent of taxa are currently of endemic status but this figure will undoubtedly be lowered when more Indo-Pacific island groups are explored . Fiji is characterised by a higher percentage of domicolo~ls forms than any other well studied island group . The results of a quantitative survey of amphipods on a transect across a fringing reef in south Viti Levu are given . MYERS. A.A., 1985 . Shallow.water. coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji . Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 5: 1-143 .