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single small spine is present on the subopercle; spines 

 are lacking on the lateral ridge of the preopercle and 

 supraorbital ridge of the frontal. The frontal bones bear 

 a conspicuous "golf ball-like" pattern of very small pits 

 (not illustrated in Figure 1), not nearly so prominent 

 as the raised network of ridges (rugosity) found in some 

 anthiine and epinephelin serranids. Scales are lacking 

 and presumably have not yet formed. 



The relationship of Jeboehlkia to other Epinephelinae 

 is unclear. Robins (1967) regarded it as a close relative 

 of Liopropoma. Johnson (1983), following Robins, in- 

 cluded it in his tribe Liopropomini, but did not examine 

 the holotype. The presence in larval Jeboehlkia of a 

 single (vs. two in Liopropoma) elongate filamentous 

 dorsal fin spine, robust (vs. weak) spines on the medial 

 preopercular ridge, and absence (vs. presence) of spines 

 on the lateral preopercular ridge suggest affinities with 

 Johnson's (1983) Grammistini (see Baldwin et al. 1991), 

 and some aspects of adult morphology corroborate this. 

 A cladistic analysis of epinepheline genera based on 

 larval and adult morphology, which should elucidate 

 the proper phylogenetic placement of Jeboehlkia, is in 

 progress. 



Acknowledgments 



We thank David Smith (USNM, formerly of MCZ) for 

 loaning us several lots of larval epinephrines (originally 

 Wood's Hole collections) in which the larval specimen 

 of Jeboehlkia was discovered. Martin R. Cavalluzzi, 

 John E. Olney, and two anonymous reviewers made 

 helpful comments on the manuscript. 



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