. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 4 Tahiti, and described several, for example the colourful Calcinus nitidus, and the small gecarcinid, Epigrapsus politus. Limited collections were also made at Tahiti by the famous British Challenger (1873-1876). They are discreetly mentioned in the works of HENDERSON (1888), for the Anomura, MIERS (1886), for the Brachyura, and BANERJEE (1960), for the grapsid crabs. This era ends with the voyages of the American ship Albatross (1899-1900, and 1900-1905), and new collections in the Society, Tuamotu, G
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 4 Tahiti, and described several, for example the colourful Calcinus nitidus, and the small gecarcinid, Epigrapsus politus. Limited collections were also made at Tahiti by the famous British Challenger (1873-1876). They are discreetly mentioned in the works of HENDERSON (1888), for the Anomura, MIERS (1886), for the Brachyura, and BANERJEE (1960), for the grapsid crabs. This era ends with the voyages of the American ship Albatross (1899-1900, and 1900-1905), and new collections in the Society, Tuamotu, Gambier, and Marquesas Islands. RATHBUN (1907) studied the Brachyura collected by this vessel. She recorded 85 Polynesian species and described, for example, Pachygrapsus fakaravensis, a grapsid very common in the Tuamotu Islands, named after the large atoll of French frigate La Coquille at anchor in Matavai bay, Tahiti (1823) (Drawing by Jules-Louis LEJEUNE. Courtesy of HORIZON Magazine) BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY: 1900-1967 The voyages around the world have ended and the collections are now made by people living in French Polynesia. The most striking in that respect is certainly SEURAT, the head of a small Zoological laboratory once established at Rikitea, Gambier Islands. Between 1902 and 1905 he gathered an important collection from the Gambier Islands, and also from the Tuamotu Islands, at Hao and Marutea South. This material was studied by NOBILI (1906, 1907) with more than 130 Polynesian species, belonging to the groups here concerned, and with the description of a score of new species, for example Thalamita gatavakensis, or Thalamita seurati. FOREST (1951), for Calcinus seurati and Calcinus spicatus spp. STEPHENSON & REES (1961), for Portunus guinotae sp. nov., and FOREST & GUINOT (1961), in their study on the Polynesian Brachyura, have mentioned again the material collected by Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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