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VI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



The author wishes to thank Ms. Emily Moser for the electronic searches and other 

 members of the staff of the NOAA Library in Rockville, MD, for their assistance in the 

 compilation of the database; Ms. Kay Hill and the staff of the University of Miami 

 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science for their assistance; Drs. S. 

 Alvarez Borrego, D. Claisse, K. E. Connolly, G. Corbin, B. Flores BSez. G. P. Gabrielidis, 

 E. Gutierrez Galindo, C. Hatton, M. Hungspreugs, G. Lauenstein, L. Mee, T. O'Connor, J. E. 

 Portmann, F. M. Power, R. Robertson, A. Siung-Chang. S. Tanabe, V. Talbot. B. Tripp. D. 

 Turgeon. T. Wade. D. B. Yang. C. Zuolian. and others for their assistance, contributions, 

 and/or review; and Dr. D. Wolfe for his assistance in bivalve taxonomy and use of his 

 library. 



