Acknowledgements
We thank Diane Pitassy and Jerry Finan, National Museum of Natural History, for specimen processing. Particular
thanks to the crew of the M/V Claymore II for their invaluable assistance during the Gambier Expedition. We thank
Tea Frogier and Pierre Mery for their support of the Coralspot project at the Gambier Archipelago. The Coralspot
expedition was funded by the "Contrat de projet Etat-Polynésie", by the ANR "IMODEL" and the French Ministry
for Environment, Sustainable Development and Transport (MEDDTL). The first author’s travel to Moorea to
participate in the expedition was funded by a grant from the Leonard P. Schultz Fund (Division of Fishes, National
Museum of Natural History).