Introduction |
Beatrice L. Burch
TABLE 1
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Taxonomic Groups at Enewetak Atoll
- organization and coordination of the taxonomic
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chon of this volume was initiated by Dr. Dennis
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Devaney of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum and was com-
pleted by Beatrice L. Burch after Dr. Devaney died in a
tragic scuba-diving accident on August 13, 1983, as he
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Hawaii. His great interest in all invertebrates in the tropics
was increased when the opportunity arose for him to work
+; the Mid-Pacific Research Laboratory at Enewetak Atoll.
.n2y made his first collecting trip to the ‘atoll in the
was investigating shrimp offshore from the Big Island of
. 1960s while he wasstill in graduate school. As the
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that the scleractinian coral collection was the key for the
study of other organisms. The workshop brought together
‘tiernational coral specialists to establish species limits on
" : important and variable group. After the workshop was
. 2. reference material from Enewetak was deposited in
European and American museumsfor ready reference bya
wider audience of scientists. Each year after the Coral
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Actiniaria
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58
26
14
12
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Reef Workshop, Devaney wert to Enewetak to curate the
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Nemertea
Nematoda
Polychaeta
Mollusca (fossi!. recent)
Insects and related
arthropods
P¥cnogonida
clomatopode
Ostracoda
echinoderms. At the same time, he encouraged the work
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o: specialists to compile taxonomic and other research
Reptantia
from Enewetak for this publication.
The diversity of the organisms at Enewetak made it
ztheult to find specialists to study all groups, so Levaney
Brachyura
Holothuraidee
prepared several chapters himself. Unfortunately. most
,
Echinodermata other thar .
groups were collected in the course of other work such as
Holothuraidea
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ech
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Phisiology, toxicity, etc., and were not extensively col-
Fishes of the Marshall
islands
The number of families, genera, and species reported
in this volume either from the literature or from new
Atos
Mammalia
lected by specialists for a particular taxonomic group
R othe
records detérmined by the authors of this volume are
presented in Table 1
References in this volume show that some or much
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Totals
work was done on a particular taxon Many groups remain
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Lagoon plankton
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reference collection and to conduct his own research on
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families
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Sipuncula
Workshop held at the atoll in 1976, because he believed
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lection at Enewetak was becoming increasingly valuable.
Devaney was pleased to participate
in the Coral Reef
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beter known, it was soon apparent that the reference col;
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collection grew and taxonomy o: the organisms became
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