Bruce B. Collette is emeritus senior systematic zoologist at NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service National Systematics Laboratory. Katherine E. Bemis is a doctoral student at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary. Nicolay V. Parin (1932–2012) and Ilia B. Shakohvskoy are affiliated with the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences.