ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Preparation of the "Marine Flora and Fauna of the 

 Northeastern United States" is being coordinated by the fol- 

 lowing board: 



Coordinating Editor: 



Melbourne R. Carriker, College of Ma- 

 rine Studies, University of Delaware, 

 Lewes, DE 19958. 



Roland L. Wigley, National Marine Fish- 

 eries Service, Biological Laboratory, 

 Woods Hole, Mass. 



Robert T. Wilce, Department of Botany, 

 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 

 Mass. 



Editorial Advisers: Marie B. Abbott, Marine Biological Lab- 

 oratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 



Arthur G. Humes, Boston University 

 Marine Program, Marine Biological 

 Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 



Wesley N. Tiffney, Department of Biol- 

 ogy, Boston University, Boston, Mass. 



Ruth D. Turner, Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, Harvard University, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



The Board established the format for the "Marine Flora and 

 Fauna of the Northeastern United States," invites systematists 

 to collaborate in the preparation of manuals, review 

 manuscripts, and advises the Scientific Editor of the National 

 Marine Fisheries Service. 



The completion of this paper was made possible by the assis- 

 tance of Norma J. Cutler. The artwork was done by Mary Ann 

 Pritchard and Henry Iwanicki. 



COORDINATING EDITOR'S COMMENTS 



Publication of the "Marine Flora and Fauna of the 

 Northeastern United States" is most timely in view of the grow- 

 ing universal emphasis on environmental work and the urgent 

 need for more precise and complete identification of coastal or- 

 ganisms than has been available. It is mandatory, wherever pos- 

 sible, that organisms be identified accurately to species. Ac- 

 curate scientific names unlock the great quantities of biological 

 information stored in libraries, obviate duplication of research 

 already done, and often make possible prediction of attributes of 

 organisms that have been inadequately studied. 



Edward B. Cutler began his studies of Sipuncula in 1964 as a 

 participant in the International Indian Ocean Expedition. As a 

 graduate student at the University of Rhode Island he worked 

 with several large collections from eastern North American and 

 Bermudan waters. That work was published in 1973. His on- 

 going research is related to the systematics and zoogeography of 



the Indian Ocean and the sub-littoral Atlantic Ocean Sipun- 

 cula. Particular attention has been paid to the slope fauna off 

 the Carolinas. He has been at Utica College of Syracuse Univer- 

 sity since 1967. 



Preparation of this manual was supported in part by a grant 

 from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Editorial 

 Board of the "Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern 

 United States." Work on the "Marine Flora and Fauna of the 

 Northeastern United States" by the Coordinating Editor is sup- 

 ported by the College of Marine Studies, University of 

 Delaware. 



Manuals are available for purchase from the Superintendent 

 of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 

 D.C. 20402. The manuals so far published in the series are listed 

 below. 



COOK, DAVID G., and RALPH 0. BRINKHURST. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Annelida: Oligochaeta. 



BORROR, ARTHUR C. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Protozoa: Ciliophora. 



MOUL, EDWIN T. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Higher plants of the marine fringe. 



McCLOSKEY, LAWRENCE R. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Pycnogonida. 



MANNING, RAYMOND B. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Crustacea: Stomatopoda. 



WILLIAMS, AUSTIN B. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Crustacea: Decapoda. 



POLLOCK, LELAND W. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Tardigrada. 



LARSON, RONALD J. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Cnidaria: Scyphozoa. 



CAVALIERE, A. R. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Higher fungi: Ascomycetes, Deuteromycetes, and 



Basidiomycetes. 

 COULL, BRUCE C. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Copepoda: Harpacticoida. 

 CUTLER, EDWARD B. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Sipuncula. 



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