Survey and Inventory of the Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico

[00:08 . 82]拟议研究的目的是调查和清点墨西哥湾的鱼类种类，并将这些数据总结成一本关于墨西哥湾鱼类的书，并作为计算机数据库。本书的建议读者是对该地区鱼类感兴趣的科学家、学生和渔民，以及研究墨西哥湾和更广泛地区生物地理学的科学家和学生。计算机数据库将总结10个主要自然历史馆藏中墨西哥湾鱼类的分布情况。具体来说，我们建议：1)列出、充分描述墨西哥湾所有物种并与其他物种区分开来；2)提供所有物种的笔墨、铅笔着色插图；3)为海湾地区所有序类、科类和特异分类群提供了线索；4)简要总结了各物种的生活史和分布情况；5)把所有的信息合并成一本关于墨西哥湾鱼类的书；6)为墨西哥湾所有已核实的物种记录建立一个计算机数据库。这些目标将通过调查博物馆的标本和有关墨西哥湾鱼类的文献来实现。数据显示项目完成了一半多一点。已经编写了大约1150页的文本，描述了130科和38目的670种。共对650种鱼类进行了说明，并为六个科的代表编写了单独的说明，以确定用于识别物种的光团模式和物种关键字中提到的专门结构。预计剩余的600 ~ 700个物种和68个科的描述、600 ~ 700个物种的插图和10个自然历史收藏的调查将在3年内完成。这项拟议研究的好处包括：1)对世界第九大水域墨西哥湾鱼类的系统分类、生活史和分布进行了最新的概述；2)为鉴定墨西哥湾鱼类提供了一个单一的来源；3)启动了一个关于墨西哥湾鱼类分布记录的计算机数据库。预计第六个目标和第三个利益将不会在拟议研究的三年期终时完成。

9400842 McEachran The objectives of the proposed research are to survey and inventory the fish species that occur in the Gulf of Mexico, and to summarize these data in the form of a book on the fishes of the Gulf and as a computer data base. The proposed audience of the book is the scientists, students and fishers with interests in the fishes of this region, and the scientists and students studying biogeography of the Gulf and more inclusive areas. The computer data base will summarize the distributions of fishes from the Gulf residing in 10 major natural history collections. Specifically we propose to: 1) list, fully describe and distinguish from other species all of the species that occur in the Gulf; 2) provide pen and ink, pencil shaded illustrations of all species; 3) provided keys to all ordinal, familial and specific taxa that occur in the Gulf; 4) briefly summarize life history and distributional information of all species; 5) combine all of the information into a book on the fishes of the Gulf of Mexico; and 6) build a computer data base for all verified species records of the Gulf of Mexico. These objectives will be accomplished by surveying museums with specimens and the literature with references to fishes from the Gulf of Mexico. To data the project slightly over one-half complete. Approximately 1,150 pages of text describing 670 species in 130 families and 38 orders have been prepared. A total of 650 species of fishes have been illustrated, and separate illustrations have been prepared for representatives of six families to define photophore patterns used in identification of species and for specialized structures mentioned in the keys to species. It is anticipated that the remaining 600 to 700 species and 68 family descriptions, 600 to 700 species illustrations, and the surveys of ten natural history collections can be completed within three years. Benefits of the proposed study include: 1) an up-to-date synopsis of the systematics, life history and distribution of t he fishes that occur in the Gulf of Mexico, the ninth largest body of water in the World, 2) a single source for the identification of fishes in the Gulf and 3) an initiation of a computer data base of distributional records for the fishes that occur in the Gulf. It is anticipated that the sixth objective and third benefit will not be completed at the end of the three year period of the proposed study.