ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



Peter Cronin, New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources, Fredericton, provided data 

 on and collected specimens of pygmy and rainbow smelt from Lake Utopia, New Brunswick. 

 Michael J. Dadswell, Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, also collected specimens from 

 Lake Utopia. Stanley W. Gorham, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, established valuable 

 contacts. L.N. Chao and the late James A. Bohlke sought the type specimens in museum 

 collections. Vianney Legendre, then of the Service de la Faune , Montreal, coined the French 

 vernacular name. 



Brian W. Coad, Associate Curator, and Frederick Schueler, Research Associate, National 

 Museum of National Sciences, Ottawa, criticized an early version and Claude Delisle, tcole 

 Poly technique, Universite de Montreal, a later version of the manuscript. Schueler 

 calculated the ANOVA of within and between-group variations for the pygmy smelt. 



Jadwiga Anikowicz Frank made several radiographs. Aleta Karstad drew the pygmy smelt. 



To all these persons the authors are grateful. Without their assistance the project 

 could not have been completed. 



Part of this research project was funded by the World Wildlife Fund (Canada) through the 

 Committee on Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) . General support was 

 provided by the National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, Ichthyology 

 Section. The authors would like to express their gratitude for this support. 



