**6. Acknowledgments**

The authors (CG, DG, AL) gratefully acknowledge years of expert taxonomic verifications by Roland Anderson, Bill Austin, David Behrens, Sheila Byers, Chris Cameron, Roger Clark, Jim Cosgrove, David Denning, Daphne Fautin, Jayson Gillespie, Daniel Gotshall, Rick Harbo, Leslie Harris, Mike Hawkes, Lea-Anne Henry, Fumio Iwata, Greg Jensen, Tom Laidig, Charles Lambert, Gretchen Lambert, Philip Lambert, Robert Lea, Neil McDaniel, Valerie McDonald, Catherine Mecklenburg, Sandra Millen, Claudia Mills, Chris Pharo, Perry Poon, Eugene Ruff, Paul Scott, Kelly Sendall, Bob Van Syoc, Gary Williams, Bruce Wing and Bruce Whitaker. Also, from among many dive partners, thanks are specially owed to Bernie Hanby, Steve Martell, Paul Malcolm, Conor McCracken and Alejandro Frid for assistance in the field. Kris Moulton created the map of study regions. Portions of the diving for this work were supported by donations from members of the Howe Sound Research and Conservation Group and the Vancouver Aquarium Board of Directors, as well as by a grant from the SeaDoc Society through the Wildlife Health Center (School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis).
