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Labnsomus nuchipinnis - 1 



Stegasles vanabilis - 4 



Halichoeres bivittalus - 3 



Anisotremus virginicus - 2 



Abudefduf saxatilis - 6 



Haemulon parra - 5 



Diplodus argenteus - 7 



Anisotremus sunnamensis - 8 



Haemulon sp (NS) - 11 



Haemulon flavolinealum - 13 



Haemulon chrysargyreum - 16 



Haemulon plumien - 14 



Pemphens schomburgki - 20 



Haemulon aurolinealum - 24 



Acanthunjs bahianus - 9 



Equetus acuminalus - 10 



Stegasles fuscus - 12 



Thalassoma bifasciatum - 19 



Lutjanus synagns - 1 7 



Haemulon macrostomum - 18 



Caranx bartholomaei - 22 



Spansoma njbnpinne 



Acanthunjs chinjrgus 



Eucinostomus sp 



Spansoma sp 



Sciaenid sp (NS) 



Halichoeres radiatus 



Halichoeres maculipinna 



Stegasles sp 



Kyphosus sp 



Spansoma aurofrenalum - 6 1 



Hypleurochilus sp - 39 



Spansoma vinde 



Scarus vetula 



Chaetodon ocellatus 



Odontoscion dentex 



Lutjanus gnseus 



Parablennius marmoreus 



Sphyraena banacuda - 54 



Alutenjs scnptus - 57 



Coryphoptenjs glaucofraenum - 27 



Cantherhines pullus - 29 



Malacoctenus tnangulatus - 45 



Pomacanthus pani - 32 



Diodon hystnx  5 1 



Ocyurus chrysurus - 3 1 



Scorpaena plumien  42 



Caranx ruber - 35 



Haemulon sciurus - 44 



Haemulon carbonanum - 36 



Mulloidichthys martinicus - 37 



Halichoeres poeyi - 48 



Spansoma chrysopterum 



Acanthurus coeruleus 



Psuedupeneus maculatus 



Echidna catenata 



Scartella cnstata 



Gerres cinereus 



Haemulon melanurum 



Apogon maculatus 



Archosargus probalocephalus 



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Figure 4 



Clustering offish taxa co-occurrence at three nearshore hardbottom sites by UPGMA analysis of an 

 inverse Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrix. Numeric codes used in correspondence analysis are next 

 to each name. NS: Newly Settled. Dashed lines delineate groups A-C!. 



and Abudefduf) ranked within the ten most abun- 

 dant species from all three sites (Table 2). Relative 

 abundances of the life stages of all grunts censused 

 at the Jupiter sites are shown in Figure 7. Early ju- 

 venile stages of the most abundant species, sailors 

 choice, were significantly more abundant than any 



other life stage at each of the three sites (Kruskal- 

 Wallis ANOVA, P<.001, and a posteriori pairwise 

 comparisons ). Adult sailors choice were significantly 

 lower in abundance than juvenile stages (Kruskal- 

 Wallis ANOVA, P<0.001). Black margate and 

 porkfish, An/.so/rem//.s virginicus, ranked second and 



