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Acknowledgments
We thank Charles Amlaner, John Chardine, Arthur Borror, and the late Les Tuck for communicating unpublished results. Unpublished data were collected by RJP from 1976 to 1985 with support from Dalhousie University, the Canadian Wildlife Service, and the Ocean Research and Education Society of Gloucester, MA., and by TPG from 1989 to 1993 with support from the University of New Hampshire, Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society, Frank B. Chapman Fund of the American Museum of Natural History, and Shoals Marine Laboratory. Thanks also to I. C. T. Nisbet and R. Morris for helpful reviews of earlier drafts of this account and to C. Thompson for input on the Appearance section. We dedicate this manuscript to the memories of Les Tuck and William H. Drury.
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