Barcoding the Fish of Futuna Island. Actinopterygii

An expedition to Futuna Island, Wallis & Futuna, an isolated island in the SW Pacific, was organized for Dec 9-25, 2016, by Serge Planes (Univ of Perpignan) to conduct a survey of the ichthyofauna of Futuna (a remote island in the Pacific) and take tissue samples for genomic analysis. Jeffrey T. Williams (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian) was invited to help conduct the survey and to obtain specimen vouchered tissue samples documented with color photos of the freshly caught fishes. The fishes of the Island of Futuna had never been sampled before this highly successful expedition. All DNA barcode records were generated with support from the federally-funded Smithsonian Institution DNA Barcode Network. Additional funding for the collections expedition was provided by the Tara Ocean Foundation, Global Genome Initiative, the Leonard P. Schultz Fund and Serge Planes, of the CRIOBE lab, Moorea, French Polynesia.