Widespread Dispersal of the Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star, Acanthaster planci, across the Hawaiian Archipelago and Johnston Atoll

Table 1

Sample size and descriptive statistics for control region data of Acanthaster planci collected along the Hawaiian Archipelago and at Johnston Atoll. The “*” indicates the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Location	𝑁	No. of haplotypes	No. of unique haplotypes	Averaged haplotype diversity (h)	Averaged nucleotide diversity (𝜋)
Hawai`i 1982 Samples	44	32	11	0.978	0.023
Hawai`i East	29	25	6	0.991	0.023
Hawai`i South	34	29	12	0.989	0.029
Hawai`i West	42	26	8	0.969	0.024
Maui	26	20	7	0.982	0.033
Moloka`i	25	23	11	0.993	0.034
Lana`i	30	25	10	0.982	0.032
O`ahu	25	23	10	0.993	0.03
Kaua`i	24	24	6	0.996	0.033
Ni`ihau	30	21	7	0.975	0.023
*French Frigate Shoals	13	11	5	0.974	0.019
*Pearl and Hermes Atoll	27	26	17	0.997	0.041
Johnston Atoll	33	23	15	0.968	0.013
Total	382	308	125	0.984	0.027