A collection of stomatopods assembled during the KUW 2009 expedition to Mayotte Island and deposited in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Paris is studied with a review of previous records from Comoros and Mayotte Island. In total 14 species are recognized 3 of them being new records for this region. A brief comparison with other regions studied for stomatopods indicates that sampling is still insufficient in Comoros and Mayotte and that dozens of species remain to be inventoried in that region.

Cozumel Island is of paramount importance for Mexico, because of the good state of its marine ecosystems, and as a touristic spot that attracts thousands of divers every day. Most studies about the local reefs have been devoted to those formations located inside the Cozumel Reefs National Park, in the southwest side of the island; however there are other important reefs that have received little attention. The objective of this paper was to conduct an analysis of zooxanthellate coral community structure in six sites of the eastern and northwestern coasts of Cozumel, and to compare them with the status of the reefs already under federal management. The results showed that there were no significant differences in coral cover, diversity, evenness and taxonomic distinctness of reefs inside and outside the protected area, a pattern that differed from that reported in previous studies. The homogeneity in the ecological structure may have resulted from the combined effects of differential human pressure (high in PNAC reefs, low outside of the park), and the high coral mortality caused in all areas by category 5 hurricanes “Emily” and “Wilma” in 2005. Considering these findings, we suggest that local authorities must allocate more effort dedicated to the conservation of reefs in the eastern coast of the island, as some of them (especially Hanan) are very well developed and house species of particular interest such as Acropora spp.

Atoll Research Bulletin, no. 582. Long-Term Declines in Coral Cover at Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles.

A checklist is given below of 1162 species of shore and epipelagic fishes belonging to 111 families that occur in the islands of Tonga, South Pacifie Ocean; 40 of these are epipelagic species. As might be expected, the fish fauna of Tonga is most similar to those of Samoa and Fiji; at least 658 species of the fishes found in Tonga are also known from Fiji and the islands of Samoa. Twelve species of shore fishes are presently known only from Tonga. Specimens of Tongan fishes are housed mainly in the fish collections of the National Museum ofNatural History, Washington D.C.; Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; and the Australian Museum, Sydney. Native Tongan names of fishes, when known, are presented after species names\n