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dance (Leis, 1989); excluding these taxa could remove 

 data useful in defining larval assemblages. Thus, two 

 taxa inclusion data sets were selected. The first data set 

 comprised taxa that made up greater than one percent 

 abundance at any one station, and the second data set 

 included those taxa that made up at least 10 percent 

 abundance at any one station (Table 2). 



The data sets were further truncated by eliminating, 

 with a few exceptions, all taxa not identified to genus 

 or species level. Priacanthidae, Scaridae, Scorpaenidae, 

 and Epinephalinae were included because, despite po- 

 tential inclusion of multiple species, these larvae rep- 

 resent some of the only reef taxa collected, and larval 

 assemblage data including these taxa would be useful 



