Funding:
This project is supported by National Science Foundation PEET grant DEB-9978119 to Rüdiger Bieler (FMNH) and Paula M. Mikkelsen (AMNH).
Field collecting in the Florida Keys is made possible through a grant by the Comer Science and Education Foundation.
Images:
Photographs of 2003 International Marine Bivalve Workshop, Florida Keys, provided by Rüdiger Bieler, Isabella Kappner, Paula Mikkelsen, and Luiz Simone
Photographs of 2000 Field season, Florida Keys: Courtesy of Jim Culter, Mote Marine Laboratory.
Background images: Modified from Jackson, R. T. (1890). Phylogeny of the Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 4(8): 276-400, pls. XXIII-XXX.
The PEET Bivalve Logo was executed by Melinda Barnadas, the watercolor illustrations by Jeff Small; Field Museum scientific illustration interns.
The specimen photos of Pitar lupinaria, Pitar bardwelli, and Antigona lamellaris were produced by Steve Thurston, AMNH Division of Invertebrate Zoology.
Dr. Eugene V. Coan provided an extensive list of systematic literature on Veneridae generated during preparation of his latest monograph, 'Bivalve Seashells of Western North America' (with Valentich Scott and Bernard; Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2000).