Table 9.— The most useful 



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characters, in order of ontogenetic appearance, for distinguishing larvae of four species of Cith- 

 ariehthys and two species of Etropus. 



'Data for C. arctifrons and E. mtcrostomus are mostly from Richardson and Joseph (1973). 

 'Uncommon counts given in parentheses. 



Birkhead, Ronald Hodson, Wilson Laney, Ed- 

 ward Pendleton, and others (NCSU); Norman 

 Chamberlain (GMBL); Alan Collins (NMFS, 

 Panama City); Mary Ann Daher and John 

 McEachran (Texas A&M); Lise Dowd and Ed- 

 ward Houde (RSMAS); Kathy Kearns (CP&L); 

 Walter Nelson (NMFS, Beaufort); John Olney 

 (VIMS); Howard Powles and Bruce Stender 

 (SCMRRI); Sally Richardson (GCRL); Frank 

 Schwartz (UNC); Victor Springer (USNM); and 

 Frank Truesdale and H. J. Walker (LSU). Tech- 

 nical assistance was provided by Robin Cuth- 

 bertson, Jay Geaghan, Ronald Hodson, Marsha 

 Shepard, and William Watson (NCSU); Frank 

 McKinney (USNM); and the Beaufort NMFS 

 Laboratory. Data and advice were provided by 

 E. H. Ahlstrom, Lise Dowd, Elmer Gutherz 

 (NMFS, Pascagoula), Drew Leslie (Florida 

 State University), Sally Richardson, and How- 

 ard Powles. Nancy Brown Tucker (VIMS) 

 assisted in preparation of the manuscript. John 

 Miller (NCSU), Allyn Powell (NMFS, Beaufort), 



E. H. Ahlstrom, Jeff Govoni (VIMS), John Olney 

 (VIMS), William Nicholson (NMFS, Beaufort), 

 John Reintjes (NMFS, Beaufort), William Hass- 

 ler (NCSU), B. J. Copeland (NCSU), Leonard 

 Pietrafesa (NCSU), and two anonymous review- 

 ers offered many helpful suggestions for im- 

 proving the manuscript. Carolina Power and 

 Light Company provided financial support. 



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