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THE CORAL TRIANGLE: HEARST BIODIVERSITY EXPEDITION 
a plastic tag with a unique number 
attached (the number is prefaeed 
with “DC” in the Materials see- 
tions), a tissue sample extracted, 
and a photograph taken. The tis¬ 
sues, usually a sliee of body mus¬ 
cle from the right side or a portion 
of the right pectoral fm, were 
plaeed in tissue vials filled with 
95% ethanol. A plastic tag num¬ 
bered the same as the fish speei- 
men from whieh it eame was also 
inserted into the vial. The fish 
specimens to be preserved for the 
CAS colleetions were plaeed in 
10% formalin for initial fixation 
later to be transferred in stages to 
75% ethanol at CAS. Some of the 
speeimens listed as CAS uncat. 
were left in the Philippines to be 
deposited in the Philippines 
National Museum. A few others 
will be deposited in other institu¬ 
tions. 
The primary references used 
for the initial identifications 
include the FAO Species Identifi¬ 
cation Guide for Fishery Purpos¬ 
es, The Living Marine Resources Figure 2. Traps used during the Expedition. 
of the Western Central Pacific 
(Carpenter and Niem 1999 and 2001); Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species (Nakabo 
2000); and The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago (Masuda et at. 1984). More speeialized litera¬ 
ture as listed in the Referenees, and speeimens from the Aeademy eollections, were used to verify 
our identifieations. On oceasion, we took advantage of the internet and advice from experts on dif¬ 
ferent fish groups to garner identifieations from images taken aboard ship. For the most part, we 
did not conduct thorough investigations into the literature coupled with comparisons of museum 
specimens for the HEPD specimens identified, as would be the ease were this paper meant to be a 
full taxonomie treatise. The purpose of this paper is to provide a basic list of specimens procured 
during the deepwater phase of the Expedition; our tentative identifieations and photographs will 
guide others who wish to follow up with more extensive studies of specimens of interest. 
Abbreviations are generally the standard ones used in the taxonomie literature, including SL— 
standard length, TL—total length, FL—fork length, HE—head length, ID and 2D—first and sec¬ 
ond dorsal fm, A—anal fm, P—^pectoral fm, V—^pelvic fm, C—caudal fm, GR—gill raker, m— 
meters, fm—fathom. Photophore abbreviations for Myctophiformes, Stomiiformes, and others can 
be found in most texts dealing with those fishes. The fishing (gear) depths recorded aboard the MV 
DA-BFAR were in fathoms; these were eon verted in the text to meters using the multiplier 1.8288. 
A question mark after a speeies name in the subheads indicates an uneertainty in the correetness of 
