1. School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Arizona State University; Glendale AZ USA
2. IUCN Marine Biodiversity Unit, Biological Sciences; Old Dominion University; Norfolk VA USA
3. Northwest Indian College; Bellingham WA USA
4. Mauritanian Institute of Oceanographic Research and Fisheries; Nouadhibou Mauritania
5. National Marine Fisheries Service; Systematics Laboratory; Washington DC USA
6. American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency; American Samoa
7. Wildlife Conservation Society; Paris France
8. South African Museum; Cape Town South Africa
9. Grice Marine Lab; College of Charleston; Charleston SC USA
10. Christopher Newport University; Newport News VA USA
11. California Academy of Sciences; San Francisco CA USA
12. Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen Denmark
13. Direction Générale des Pêches et de l'Aquaculture; Libreville Gabon
14. Florida Institute of Technology; Melbourne FL USA
15. Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas; Cape Verde
16. Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences; University of Ghana; Accra Ghana
17. IUCN Red List Unit; Cambridge UK
18. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory; Darwin Australia
19. Independent Consultant; Conakry Guinea
20. Florida Museum of Natural History; University of Florida; Gainesville FL USA
21. University of British Columbia; Vancouver BC Canada
22. Centre de Recherches Océanographiques de Dakar-Thiaroye; Dakar Senegal
23. Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement; Brest France
24. IUCN Global Species Programme; Gland Switzerland
25. Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research; Lagos Nigeria