New Stomatopod from Eniwetok, 1971

Stomatopods were collected at nine stations. Of the eight species collected, three, Gonodactylus chiragra (Fabricius), G. falcatus (Forskal), and G. platysoma Wood-Mason, have extensive ranges in the Indo-West Pacific region; they are known from scattered localities between Oceania and the western Indian Ocean (Manning, 1968).

Gonodactylus smithii Pocock has been recorded from localities between the South China Sea and Australia to the western Indian Ocean (Manning, 1968); although it was not known from the central Pacific Ocean, its occurrence there is not unexpected inasmuch as it has been found in the coral habitat throughout its range. One species, G. espinosus Borradaile, is known to occur in the central Pacific Ocean, where it has been recorded from several localities between Palmyra Island and the Tuamotu Archipelago (Manning, 1967), and another, Haptosquilla glyptocercus (Wood-Mason), is largely restricted to the Pacific Ocean; it has also been taken in the Andaman Islands (Manning, 1969).