Australian Museum, Sydney; Michael J. Penrith, State 

 Museum, Windhoek; Craig Phillips, U.S. National 

 Aquarium, Washington, D.C.; E. Postel, Faculte des 

 Sciences, Rennes; Jiirgen Remane and J. P. Schaer, 

 Universite de Neuchatel; Robert R. Rofen, Aquatic 

 Research Institute, Hayward, Calif.; Robert L. Shipp, 

 University of South Alabama, Mobile; J. L. B. and 

 Margaret M. Smith, Rhodes University, Grahamstown; 

 Lorenzo Sorbini, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, 

 Verona; Walter A. Starck, Chino, Calif.; F. Strauch, 

 Universitat Koln; Guido Tavani, Licio Giannelli, and 

 Andrea Cerrina Feroni, Museo di Paleontologia dell 

 'Universita di Pisa; Donald A. Thompson, University of 

 Arizona, Tucson; Luiz R. Tommasi, Institute 

 Oceanografico da Universidade de Sao Paulo; E. Tor- 

 tonese, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa; Vittorio 

 Vialli, Istituto di Geologia e Paleontologia dell'Univer 

 sita di Bologna; Vlastimil Wagner, Sao Paulo, Brazil 

 Frank Williams, Guinean Trawling Survey, Lagos 

 Richard Winterbottom, Queen's University, Kingston, 

 Ontario; Donald Wohlschlag, University of Texas, Port 

 Aransas; Loren P. Woods, Field Museum of Natural 

 History, Chicago; Ralph W. Yerger, Florida State 

 University, Tallahassee. 



Preliminary arrangements toward the publication of 

 this monograph were facilitated by a special grant from 

 the Lerner Fund for Marine Research of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



The manuscript for this work has benefited greatly 

 from the helpful criticism of several colleagues who 

 volunteered their valuable time to peruse it: first, 

 Richard Winterbottom and Bruce B. Collette, and then 



C. Lavett Smith and Stanley H. Weitzman. Their 

 generosity is much appreciated and their suggestions 

 mostly accepted and used. 



Richard Winterbottom, while at Queens University, 

 Kingston, Ontario, and at both the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia and the U.S. National Museum 

 of Natural History, Washington, D.C., provided many 

 highly valuable hours of discussion on the anatomy, 

 classification, and phylogeny of plectognath fishes and 

 freely shared his research data with me. His interest in, 

 and information given toward furthering, the work 

 leading to this monograph has been invaluable, even 

 though he is not necessarily in agreement with all of the 

 phylogenetic conclusions set forth here and probably 

 does not approve of the style of classification adopted 

 here. He is an esteemed colleague of impeccable creden- 

 tials and more than proven worth in the study of myology 

 and of plectognaths, as well as being a dear friend with 

 whom I happen to disagree on some points of how to 

 divide and group the supra- and subfamilial (but not 

 familial, on which we are mostly in agreement) 

 categories of Tetraodontiformes. 



The errors of omission and commission that remain in 

 this monograph, after eluding my strenuous efforts to 

 eliminate them, are entirely my own and are not at all at- 

 tributable even in part to any of my so freely cooperating 

 colleagues acknowledged above. 



This monograph is dedicated to the four friends most 

 intimately associated at the personal level with its 

 preparation: Helga Olga Schrader, Milan Kumpera 

 Tyler, Marisa Alenna Tyler, and Antoinette Carmela De 

 Fazio. 



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