FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 72, NO. 3 



Secretaria da Agricultura, Departamento 

 Zoologia, Sao Paulo, (and loans from Museu Na- 

 cional, Rio de Janeiro) by Augusto Melo and Paulo 

 E. Vanzolini. 



People who assisted with specimen loans, col- 

 lecting, photographs, literature, data, and counsel 

 were: Warren C. Blow, U.S. Geological Survey, 

 Washington, D.C.; Enrique E. Boschi, Instituto de 

 Biologia Marina, Mar del Plata; Henrique Rod- 

 rigues da Costa, Centro de Estudos Zoologicos, Rio 

 de Janeiro; Alain Crosnier, then of ORSTOM de 

 Pointe-Noire, Republic de Congo; Charles E. Cut- 

 ress. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagiiez; H. 

 Gruner, Zoologisches Museum, Berlin; Willard D. 

 Hartman, Peabody Museum of Natural History, 

 Yale University, New Haven; Neil C. Hulings, 

 then of Mediterranean Marine Sorting Center, 

 Tunisia; Charles A. Johnson, Duke University 

 Marine Laboratory, Beaufort; Alceu Lemos de 

 Castro, Universidad do Brasil, Museu Nacional, 

 Rio de Janeiro; Fernando A. Manrique Colchado, 

 then of Instituto de Estudios Superiores de 

 Monterrey, Mexico; Elhott A. Norse, Allan Han- 

 cock Foundation; Harriett M. Perry, Gulf Coast 

 Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Miss.; Egon 

 Popp, Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen 

 Staates, Munich; William Stephenson, Univer- 

 sity of Queensland, Brisbane; Edgard Taissoun 

 N., Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo; Druid 

 Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, 

 D.C. 



I am especially indebted for assistance of col- 

 leagues at the University of North Carolina Insti- 

 tute of Marine Sciences (A. F. Chestnut, W. E. 

 Fahy, J. J. and Erika Kohlmeyer, H. J. Porter, F. 

 J. Schwartz, W. J. Woods), the U.S. National 

 Museum (H. H. Hobbs, Jr., R. B. Manning, I. Perez 

 Farfante, H. B. Roberts), my wife J. McN. Wil- 

 liams, and staff members and students in the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina (UNO, Department of 

 Zoology, Chapel Hill. Photographs were taken by 

 Janice L. Czikowsky and reproduced at the UNC 

 Photographic Laboratory. Maria M. Dieguez drew 

 the index and female reproductive figures, plotted 

 distribution maps, and assembled all figures. 



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