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Table of Contents 
Terrence M. Goseiner and Meg Burke: Foreword: The 2011 Hears! Philippine Biodiversity 
Expedition.7 
Terrence M. Goseiner and Meg Burke: Expedition Participants and Logistics.9 
Terrence M. Goseiner and Meg Burke: From Parachutes to Partnerships: An “Integrated” 
Natural History Museum Expedition in the Philippines.19 
Richard Ross: 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition Summary.39 
Gary C. Wieeiams: The Three Research Components of the Hears! Biodiversity Expedition 
to the Philippines.53 
Shallow-water Component 
Gary C. Williams and Jei-Ying Chen: Illustrated Key to the Shallow-Water Gorgonians 
and Pennatulaceans of the Verde Island Passage, Northern Philippines, Including Synopses 
of the Taxa and a Glossary of Terms (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia).67 
Vanessa L. Knutson and Terrence M. Goseiner: Three New Species of Gymnodoris 
Nudibranchs from the Philippines.129 
Patricia Alvarez-Campos, Guillermo San Martin, and Christina Piotrowski: A New 
Species of Myrianida Milne Edwards, 1845 (Autolytinae: Syllidae: Annelida), from 
Luzon, Philippine Islands.145 
Christina N. Piotrowski: A New Scaleworm, Iphione malifera (Polychaeta: Iphionidae), 
from a Coral Reef in the Philippine Islands.155 
Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo: Sternaspis piotrowskiae sp. nov. (Polychaeta: Stemaspidae) 
from the Philippine Islands.165 
Robert J. Van Syoc, Dana Carrison-Stone, Liezl Madrona, and Gary C. Williams: 
Barnacle Symbionts of Gorgonian Sea Fans Description of Seven New Species 
(Archaeobalanidae: Cirripedia) from the Philippines.171 
Rich Mooi and Angelica Munguia: Sea Urchins of the Philippines.213 
Bart Shepherd, Richard Ross, and Marisa Avila: Collection, Transport and Husbandry 
of the Coconut Octopus, Amphioctopus marginatiis (Taki, 1964), from the Philippines . . . 237 
Deep-water Component 
Tomio Iwamoto: Two New Hemerocoetine Trichonotidae Fishes (Teleostei, Perciformes) 
from the Philippiness.251 
Tomio Iwamoto and John E. McCosker: Deep-Water Fishes of the 2011 Hearst Philippine 
Biodiversity Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences.263 
John McCosker: A Gigantic Deep-Water Wonn Eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the 
Verde Island Passage, Philippine Archipelago.333 
