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Institution), A. C. Wheeler (British Museum, 

 Natural History), R. J. Lavenberg (Los Angeles 

 County Museum), M. M. Dick and K. Leim 

 (Museum of Comparative Zoology), R. H. Backus 

 (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute), J. Nielsen 

 (Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen), and G. Krefft 

 (Institut fiir Seefischerei, Hamburg) and their in- 

 stitutions for making material available. We are 

 also grateful to P. M. David, N. R. Merrett, R. J. 

 Gibbs, Jr., and R. J. Lavenberg for their valuable 

 comments smd discussions of the manuscript. Fi- 

 nally, our thanks to R. A. Larcombe and Nancy 

 Smith (illustrations). Partial support was pro- 

 vided by the National Science Foundation under 

 grant DES 75-03845. 



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