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Photographs are from Wikimedia Commons and iNaturalist; any original illustration is marked as such. All are credited under each image and on the Credits page.

Names and facts are compiled from FishBase (used as a factual reference), SeaLifeBase, WoRMS, the Marine Research Section’s Fishes of the Maldives (1997) and Anderson, Sattar and Adam, Cetaceans in the Maldives: a review (2012).

Dhivehi names are compiled from published sources. Corrections are welcome.