Introduction | Beatrice L. Burch TABLE 1 +. B chop Museum. Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 Taxonomic Groups at Enewetak Atoll - organization and coordination of the taxonomic sous : chon of this volume was initiated by Dr. Dennis M I . 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 rae Vascularplants 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 : . 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 protozoa Porifera Actiniaria Octocoralha 279 40 27 31 144 33 2t . 17 58 26 14 12 Brachiopoda 4 * 3 Echiura | Reef Workshop, Devaney wert to Enewetak to curate the . . Nemertea Nematoda Polychaeta Mollusca (fossi!. recent) Insects and related arthropods P¥cnogonida clomatopode Ostracoda echinoderms. At the same time, he encouraged the work 3] 2 1] :id 1 132, 1240 1 110 453 1 34 15] 190 ° O 13) 4 4 23 3 4 , 1 (i Natantia | 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 a a ; ech aL. 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 Mscellanvous Totals work was done on a particular taxon Many groups remain eo ns 77 9 | an 177 ic 9 3 3 j ° $2 5: 145 56 4 70 2c id q. Anomura 12 61 1] ; 53 84 ~Giripedia — 18 Lagoon plankton 285 reference collection and to conduct his own research on 5002435 169 Piatyhelminthes ~ families . 48 Sipuncula Workshop held at the atoll in 1976, because he believed ee ee 97 Bryozoa . lection at Enewetak was becoming increasingly valuable. Devaney was pleased to participate in the Coral Reef : No. of e gencra oS 123 Scleractinia beter known, it was soon apparent that the reference col; | Forams and nonplanktonic collection grew and taxonomy o: the organisms became . No. of _ species axon 3 293 20 114 1] 9 69 _ — ng 3] G 124 <47} 3 is 2 25 ve 438 09 27 7 :2 6 oy R? ee 2284 5 40 — 9G? ee