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In the previous print issue of Pacific Science (44.4, October 2020, pp. 381–387) the appendices are missing from the article Gastrointestinal Helminths in Nactus spp. (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Six Papua New Guinean Islands" by Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles R. Bursey, and Fred Kraus.

Appendix 1

Nactus Specimens from Papua New Guinea Islands Examined from the Herpetology Collection of the Bishop Museum (BPBM), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Bougainville Island: BPBM 16984–17000. Fergusson Island: BPBM 15854–15860, 15862–15870, 15872–15884. Misima Island: BPBM 16739–16758, 19823–19828. New Britain Island: BPBM 22010, 22012, 22013, 22015, 22017–22023, 22025–22029, 22031, 22032. Rossel Island: BPBM 19857–19875, 19880. Sudest Island: BPBM 19830, 19831, 19833, 19834, 19836, 19837, 19839–19842, 19844–19849, 19852, 19854.

Appendix 2

Harold W. Manter Parasite Collection (HWML), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) Accession Numbers for Helminths from Nactus sp. Collected (by island) in Papua New Guinea Examined from the Herpetology Collection of the Bishop Museum (BPBM), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Bougainville: Aplectana zweifeli (HWML 111607); Cosmocerca zugi (HWML 111608); Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larva) (HWML 111609).

Fergusson: Sauracanthorhynchus sphenomorphicola (HWML 111610); A. zweifeli (HWML 111611); Bakeria bakeri (HWML 111612); C. zugi (HWML 111613); Parapharyngodon maplestoni (HWML 111614); Abbreviata sp. (larva) (HWML 111615); Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larva) (HWML 111616).

Misima: Mesocoelium brevicaecum (HWML 111617); Gekkotaenia novaeguineaensis (HWML111618); S. sphenimorphicola (HWML 111619); A. zweifeli (HWML 111620); B. bakeri (HWML 11621); C. zugi (HWML 11622); Meteterakis crombiei (HWML 11623); P. maplestoni (HWML 11624); Physalopteroides milnensis (HWML 111625); Abbreviata sp. (larva) (HWML 111626); Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larva) (HWML111627).

New Britain: G. novaeguineaensis (HWML 111628); A. zweifeli (HWML 111629); M. crombiei (HWML 111630); P. maplestoni (HWML 111631); Abbreviata sp. (larva) (HWML 111632); Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larva) (HWML 111633).

Rossel: G. novaeguineaensis (HWML 111634); S. sphenimorphicola (HWML 111635); A. zweifeli (HWML 111636); B. bakeri (HWML 111637); C. zugi (HWML 111638); M. crombiei (HWML 111639); P. maplestoni (HWML 111640); Abbreviata sp. (larva) (HWML 111641); Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larva) (HWML 111642).

Sudest: S. sphenimorphicola (HWML111644); A. zweifeli (HWML 111645); P. maplestoni (HWML 111646); Abbreviata sp. (larva) (HWML 111647); Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larva) (HWML 111648).

Appendix 3

List of Helminths with BPBM Number for Nactus spp. from Six Islands from Papua New

Guinea Examined from the Herpetology Collection of the Bishop Museum (BPBM), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Numbers with no parasite have——————behind them.

Bougainville (n = 17)

BPBM number: Helminths

16984: 2 Aplectana zweifeli; 16985:———; 16986:———; 16987:———; 16988:—; 16989:———; 16990: 3 A. zweifeli; 16991:———; 16992: 9 Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larvae), 3 A. zweifeli, 1 Cosmocerca zugi; 16993:———; 16994:———; 16995:———; 16996:———; 16997:———; 16998:———; 16999:———; 17000: 1 A. zweifeli.

Fergusson (n = 29)

15854:————————; 15855: 3 A. zweifeli, 1 C. zugi; 15856: 4 Abbreviata sp. (larva), 3 A. zweifeli; 15857: 2 A. zweifeli; 15858: 1 Bakeria bakeri, 6 A. zweifeli, 7 C. zugi; 15859: 1 Abbreviata sp. (larva), 2 B. bakeri, 1 C. zugi, 5 A. zweifeli; 15860: 3 A. zweifeli, 1 C. zugi: 15862: 7 Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larvae), 3 Parapharyngodon maplestoni; 15863: 17 Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larvae), 13 P. maplestoni; 15864: 1 P. maplestoni; 15865: 8 A. zweifeli; 15866: 3 P. maplestoni; 15867: 4 P. maplestoni; 15868: 4 P. maplestoni; 15869: 1 P. maplestoni, 1 Mesocoelium brevicaecum; 15870: 1 P. maplestoni; 15872: 1 A. zweifeli, 1 Sauracanthorhynchus sphenomorphicola; 15873: 1 C. zugi, 7 A. zweifeli; 15874: 1 S. sphenimorphicola, 1 C. zugi, 17 A. zweifeli; 15875: 1 B. bakeri, 1 C. zugi, 4 P. maplestoni, 4 A. zweifeli; 15876: 1 P. maplestoni, 21 A. zweifeli; 15877: 4 B. bakeri, 6 A. zweifeli; 15878:1 S. sphenomorphicola, 1 B. bakeri, 45 A. zweifeli; 15879: 8 Abbreviata sp, (larva), 5 S. sphenomorphicola; 15880:1 Abbreviata sp. (larva), 11 P. maplestoni; 15881: 5 P. maplestoni, 1 B. bakeri: 15882: 4 P. maplestoni; 15883: 3 S. sphenomorphicola, 3 P. maplestoni; 15884: 4 P. maplestoni, 1 B. bakeri.

Misima (n = 26)

16739:———; 16740: 1 P. maplestoni, 10 A. zweifeli: 16741: 5 P. maplestoni: 16742: 1 Gekkotaenia novaeguineaensis, 8 P. maplestoni, 6 A. zweifeli; 16743:1 S. sphenomorphicola, 4 P. maplestoni, 1 A. zweifeli; 16744: 1 Abbreviata sp. (larva), 8 P. maplestoni; 16745: 22 Rictulariidae gen. sp. (larvae), 8 A. zweifeli, 2 P. maplestoni; 16746: 3 P. maplestoni, 2 A. zweifeli; 16747: 6 Abbreviata...

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