Illustrations
The authors and owners of all photographs used in this CD are individually identified with each such illustration.
Special thanks are due Roger Steene (Cairns, Australia) for his collecting assistance and underwater photographic
expertise at the Galapagos and Panama in 1990. Alex Kerstitch (Tuscon, Arizona) performed similar servics for us
in the Gulf of Californa in 1990 and allowed us to use his photographs to illustrate various species of Gulf of California fishes.
We also obtained numerous valuable photographs of circumtropical and Indo-Pacific species from Jack Randall (Bishop Museum, Hawaii),
Philippe Baerez (the Natural History Museum, Paris; Ecuadorian and Peruvian fishes), Dan Gotshall
(Sea Challengers; Gulf of California and Californian fishes), and Helmut Debelius (IKWANU; circumtropical fishes).
Many other photographers contributed photographs of fishes, particularly of widely distributed species photographed elsewhere in the world.
Our photographic endeavours were greatly assisted by the dark room expertise of Carl Hansen and Marcos Guerra (both STRI)
and Lorie Aceto and her staff (Smithsonian Institution Photographic Services, Washington, D.C.).
Ernesto Peña taught himself the skills needed to provide the high quality set of digital images included here.
Pere Oliver, of FAO, granted permission for us to use drawings of a broad range of species from the FAO series of field guides,
especially that for our region, and John Bass (South Africa) allowed use of his drawings of sharks.
Database management and digital image preparation
Ernesto Peña of STRI managed the databases and digitally processed all the images included here.
Zoraida Jimenez, Ileana Hernández and Alana Domingo entered, checked and revised many of the numeric data in the large number of databases.