ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Preparation of the "Marine Flora and Fauna of the North- 

 eastern United States" is being coordinated by the following 

 Board: 



Coordinating Editor: 



Melbourne R. Carriker. College of Marine Studies, Marine 

 Studies Center, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE 

 19958. 



Editorial Advisers: 



Marie B. Abbott, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 

 Hole, Mass. 



Arthur G. Humes, Boston University Marine Program, 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 



Wesley N. Tiffney, Department of Biology, Boston Univer- 

 sity, Boston, Mass. 



Ruth D. Turner, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Har- 

 vard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Roland L. Wigley, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 Northeast Fishery Center, Woods Hole. Mass. 



Robert T. Wilce, Department of Botany, University of 

 Massachusetts, Amherst, 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, reviews 

 manuscripts, and advises the Scientific Editor of the National 

 Marine Fisheries Service. 



Acknowledgment is made to Gettysburg College for generous- 

 ly awarding two Faculty Fellowship Grants in support of this 

 study. In addition, I express appreciation to the staff of the 

 Biological Marine Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., and es- 

 pecially the Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, 

 N.C., where most of this work was accomplished. I am grateful 

 to Jan Kohlraeyer. Institute of Marine Sciences, University of 

 North Carolina, for critically reviewing the manuscript. 

 Acknowledgment is made to my students who spend numerous 

 hours modifying the keys and locating the conspicuous rough 

 spots so common in works of this kind. Finally, I am indebted to 

 my wife, Shirlee, for her many suggestions, her help in or- 

 ganizing several parts of the work, and for typing the 

 manuscript. 



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. 



COORDINATING EDITOR'S COMMENTS 



Publication of the "Marine Flora and Fauna of the North- 

 eastern United States" is most timely in view of the growing un- 

 iversal emphasis on environmental work and the urgent need for 

 more precise and complete identification of coastal organisms 

 than has been available. It is mandatory, wherever possible, 

 that organisms be identified accurately to species. Accurate 

 scientific names unlock the great quantities of biological infor- 

 mation stored in libraries, obviate duplication of research al- 

 ready done, and make possible prediction of attributes of 

 organisms that have been inadequately studied. 



A. R. Cavaliere began his studies on the taxonomy and mor- 

 phology of marine Ascomycetes in 1961 as a graduate student at 

 Duke University. Since that time his work has expanded to in- 

 clude the occurrence and systematics of marine fungi along 

 selected areas of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the United 

 States, as well as Nova Scotia and Iceland. 



Manuals are available for purchase from the Superintendent 

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

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

 below. 



COOK, DAVID G., and RALPH O. 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. 

 MOl'L, 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. 



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