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The systematic revision presented in this volume is based on metamorphosed stages of some 6,310 females and 785 males, comprising as far as possible all available material worldwide, borrowed from or examined at the following 90 institutions: AIM: Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand AMNH: American Museum of Natural History, New York AMS: Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia ARC: Atlantic Reference Centre, Huntsman Marine Laboratory , St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada ARIK: Atlantic Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography , Kaliningrad, Russia ASIZP: Academia Sinica, Institute of Zoology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China AUS: Agricultural University, Szczecin, Poland BMNH: The Natural History Museum, London (formerly the British Museum of Natural History), England BPBM: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii BSKU: Kochi University, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kochi City, Japan CAS: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CAS-SU: Stanford University, material now housed at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CMA: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, San Pedro, California CMC: Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Hobart, Tasmania ECFR: East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science, Shanghai, China FMNH: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago GNM: Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Avdelning, Sweden HSU: Humboldt State University, Arcata, California HUMZ: Hokkaido University, Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity , Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hakodate, Japan IEOS: Instituto Español de Oceanografia, Santande, Spain IFAN: Institut Français d’Afrique Noire, Dakar, Senegal IFM: Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany IINH: Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Reykjavik, Iceland IIPB: Instituto de Investigaciones Pesquéras de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain IMARPE: Instituto del Mar del Perú, Callao, Peru IMB: Institut für Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany (now part of the Alfred Wegner Institut, Bremerhaven) IMBV: Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok, Russia INM: Ibaraki Nature Museum, Ibaraki, Japan ISH: Institut für Seefischerei, Hamburg, Germany, collections now housed at the Zoological Museum, University of Hamburg LACM: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles MACN: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina MBL: Museu Nacional de História Natural (Museu Bocage), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal MCZ: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts MHNLR: Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France MMA: Museo Marítimo de Asturias, Luanco, Asturias, Spain MMF: Museu Municipal do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal MNHN: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France MNHNC: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile MNRJ: Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil MOM: Musée Oceanographique de Monaco, Monaco MRIR: Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland MTF: Museum of Thorshavn, Faeroe Islands, Denmark 521 SYMBOLIC CODES FOR INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS MZUSP: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil NHMB: “Grigore Antipa” Natural History Museum, Bucharest, Romania NHRM: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden NMI: National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland NMMBP: National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Checheng, Pingtung, Taiwan, Republic of China NMNS: National Museum of Natural Science and Technology , Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China NMNZ: National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand NMSZ: National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland NMV: National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia NMW: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria NOC: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, England (formerly SOC, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, England) NSMN: Niigata Science Museum, Niigata, Japan NSMT: National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan NYZS: New York Zoological Society, New York (collections now housed at California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco) ORI: Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan OS: Oregon State University, Department of Oceanography , Corvallis, Oregon PINRO: Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries, Murmansk, Russia ROM: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada SAIAB: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, South Africa (formerly RUSI: Rhodes University, J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology) SAM: South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa SAMA: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia SCFR: South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science, Kwangzhou, China SCMT: Science College Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan SFU: Shanghai Fisheries University, Shanghai, China SIO: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, California 522 SYMBOLIC CODES FOR INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS SIOM: Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, Moscow, Russia (formerly IOAN or IOM, Institute of Oceanography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) SMNS: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany SWFSC: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, California TCWC: Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas TFRI: Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China...

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