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Figure 13. — Transforming specimen (18.4 mm) and pelagic juveniles (22.4, 41.6 mm) of Sehastes helvomaculatus . 



{2A'7c SL). Later stage larvae change very little in larva to pelagic juvenile. Meristics, presence of a 



appearance from the smallest larva, except for an supraocular spine, the concave shape and narrow 



increase of dorsolateral internal gut pigment. A width of the interorbital space, the patch of 



distinctive pigment patch appears on the caudal melanophores on the caudal peduncle, and the 



peduncleduring the period of transformation from single melanistic pigment saddle extending pos- 



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