ROSENBLATT and BUTLER: THE RIBBONFISH GENUS DESMODEMA 



33°39'N, 135°00'W, 1; SIO 75-588, 29°17'N, 

 116°59'W, 1(55); UCLA A343, 28°N, 132°W, 1; 

 UCLA W62-73, 32°10'N, 118°24'W, 1(53); SIO 

 75-589, 28°37.5'N, 118°18'W, 1(18.5); SIO 75-591, 

 33°34'N, 118°34'W, 1(89+ SL); LACM 31804, no 

 data, 1(132); SIO 64-96, 31°39'N, 117°51'W, 

 1(289); SIO 72-16, 27°22'N, 155°23'W, 1(19.8, 

 26.4). 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



We thank William Eschmeyer (CAS), Robert 

 Lavenberg (LACM), and Boyd W. Walker (UCLA) 

 for permission to examine specimens under their 

 care. Gary L. Friedricksen turned three specimens 

 over to us. John Fitch supplied collection data for 

 certain specimens and read the manuscript. 

 Robert Lavenberg and John Fitch supplied the 

 original of the drawing of the holotype of D. lorum, 

 first published in Fitch and Lavenberg 1968. 

 Frank Schwartz, Institute of Marine Science, 

 University of North Carolina, supplied vertebral 

 counts of two Atlantic specimens of D. polystictum . 



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