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DEVANEY 



TABLE 1 

 Checklist of Octocorallia of Enewetak Atoll 



'New Enewetak record. 



dredged from depths of 100 m or deef)er. One sp)ecies, 

 recorded as Subergorgia mollis, is very close taxonomi- 

 cally to that determined as S. reticulata from Enewetak, 

 but further work is necessary before this question is 

 resolved (Bayer, personal communication). Otherwise, none 

 of the species so far identified is common to the two 

 atolls. At least one more shallow-water gorgonacean, as 

 yet unrecorded from Enewetak, was described from Arno 

 Atoll in the southern Marshall Islands (Bayer, 1955). The 

 gorgonacean Rumphella antipathes has been utilized from 

 specimens collected at Enewetak for biochemical studies 

 (Ciereszko et al., 1968; Marsh and Ciereszko, 1973). 



During submersible dives off the seaward side of three 

 islets (Bikcn, Mut, and Enewetak) during July 1981, the 

 author observed nephtheids and gorgonaceans as common 

 faunal elements at depths from approximately 80 to 

 180 m. Several of these, as yet undetermined, were col- 

 lected and were deposited at the Bishop Museum. 



The classification of octocorals used herein follows that 

 by Bayer (1956), although a revised classification has 

 recently been proposed (Bayer, 1981). 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



J. Verseveldt was most helpful in reviewing the discus- 

 sion and checklist on the alcyonaceans and allowing the 

 inclusion of the five new records that he determined. 

 F. M. Bayer (USNM) provided updated names for the 

 material collected by Goldberg and was most helpful in 

 permitting their inclusion here. 



REFERENCES 



Bayer, F. M., 1949, The Alcyonaria of Bikini and Other Atolls in 

 the Marshall Group, Part I: the Gorgonacea, Pac. Sci., 3: 

 195-214. 



, 1955, Contributions to the Nomenclature, Systematics, and 



