Wallis and Futuna
Four
recently
described freshwater gobies unique to Futuna are Stiphodon rubromaculatus
(MNHN
pdf file), Sicyopus
sasali (MNHN
pdf file), Akihito
futuna (WNS Stamps),
and Stenogobius
keletaona (MNHN
pdf file).
Endemic marine fish include the Futuna Deepwater Dragonet Callionymus futuna (BHL)
and Seret’s Deepwater Dragonet Callionymus sereti (BHL).
Invertebrates known only from Wallis and Futuna include a wolf spider Schizocosa vulpecula
(Wolf
Spiders of Australia), a longhorned beetle Ropica wallisi (Lamiaires
du Monde), several ceratopogonid flies (CAT.INIST),
and a land snail Lamprocystis
firmostyla (fig. 62 at BHL).
Endemic marine invertebrates include
a crab Microgoneplax
cope (decapoda.free.fr),
a scallop Parvamussium
musorstomi (scallop.nl),
Liotipoma wallisensis
(p. 15 of NHMLAC
pdf file), and a murex snail Phyllocoma
platyca (MNHN).
The cuttlefish Sepia
subplana (Wikipedia)
is known only from the Bayonnaise Bank.
Vascular plants exclusive to Wallis and Futuna include Aglaia psilopetala (WNS Stamps),
Cyrtandra futunae
(p. 25 of IRD
10 MB pdf file), Peperomia
futunaensis (p. 57 of IRD
10 MB pdf file), Medinilla
racemosa (Internet
Archive),
and Elatostema yenii
(JSTOR).
Wallis and Futuna is a territory of France
and is included in the Fiji Tropical Moist Forests
terrestrial ecoregion (EoE).