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FIGURE2.—£nc/n>/yDpu.s(imfcriu.s. A, USNM 213501. standard length 282 mm, offCape Cod, dorsal fin pattern coded as 1 (see text). B, 

 color pattern of a fish from the Gulf of Mexico (USNM 2 1 784.3 1 drawn on the outline of the fish shown in Figure 2 A, dorsal fin pattern 

 coded as 6 (see text). 



Table 3. — Frequency distributions of numbers of dorsal fin rays in Emhelyapus 

 ctmbnus from eight geographical areas. 



of these characters with Northern Atlantic fish, 

 rather than being intermediate (Tables 4, 5); how- 

 ever, for pectoral fin rays, fish from these two areas 

 have lower counts that are in between Gulf and 

 Alantic, and Greenland, Iceland, and Europe 

 samples. Iceland fish average highest of all in dor- 

 sal and anal fin ray counts and in vertebral counts 

 (not including the few specimens from Greenland 

 and Africa). In pectoral counts, however, Iceland 

 and Europe specimens have identical means. 



In total gill raker counts (Table 6) eastern At- 

 lantic samples have higher means than do western 



Atlantic samples, with the highest standard de- 

 viation being in the Northern Atlantic samples. 



Body Proportions 



Measurements were taken of the following eight 

 body parts and compared for six of them in fish 

 from the six geogi-aphical areas listed below and 

 described previously under sampling areas 

 (Greenland and Africa are not included in the 

 present analysis). Linear regressions were calcu- 

 lated for the following dependent variables, with 

 standard length as the independent variable: 



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