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Table 4 



Selected proportional morphometries and meristics of Sebastes ciliatus and S. variabilis from shallow-water collections. Mor- 

 phometric data are in percent standard length (SL) or head length (HL). X = statistically significant difference at 0.05 level, as 

 evaluated by ANOVA and ANCOVA, when appropriate; ns = not statistically significant at 0.05 level. 



S. ciliatus 



S. variabilis 



Range 



Mean ±SD 



Range 



Mean ±SD ANOVA ANCOVA 



Meristics 68 



Dorsal-fin rays 13-16 



Anal-fin rays 7-9 



Pectoral-fin rays (left) 17-19 



Lateral-line pores (left) 40-50 



Gill rakers 32-37 



Morphometries 



Standard length 83.8-331.0 



Head length/SL 30.5-35.5 



Orbit length/HL 21.5-30.6 



Snout length/HL 18.2-26.0 



Interorbital width/HL 22.9-28.2 

 Suborbital depth/HL 4.1-7.6 



Upper jaw length/HL 43.6-50.4 



Lower jaw length/HL 53.4-60.5 



Gill raker length/HL 11.8-20.7 



Depth at pelvic-fin base/SL 34.0-40.8 



Depth at anal-fin origin/SL 27.4-35.8 



Body thickness/SL 14.9-21.3 

 Pectoral-fin base width/SL 9.7-11.8 



Pectoral-fin ray length/SL 25.1-31.3 



Caudal peduncle depth/SL 9.8-13.7 



Caudal peduncle dorsal length/SL 11.9-16.2 



Caudal peduncle ventral length/SL 18.2-22.5 



Preanal length/SL 62.5-77.4 



Predorsal length/SL 29.3-35.4 



Spinous dorsal-fin-base length/SL 32.5-41.8 



Soft dorsal-fin-base length/SL 22.1-29.6 



Anal-fin-base length/SL 14.5-18.9 



Prepelvic-fin length/SL 36.4-49.5 



49 



15.0+0.5 

 7.9 ±0.4 



18.1 ±0.5 



45.2 ±2.1 



34.3 ±1.1 



32.9 ±1.1 

 25.6 ±2.1 

 21.3 ±1.6 



25.6 ±1.2 

 5.9 ±0.7 



47.3 ±1.5 



56.4 ±1.6 

 15.2 ±1.5 



36.7 ±1.5 



31.2 ±1.7 

 17.9 ±1.2 

 10.6 ±0.5 

 28.6 ±1.2 



11.5 ±0.7 

 14.0 ±0.8 



20.6 ±1.0 



68.3 ±2.3 

 32.2 ±1.2 

 37.0 ±2.0 

 26.2 ±1.4 

 16.5 ±0.9 



39.4 ±2.3 



ns 



ns 



ns 



ns 



ns 



X 



X 



ns 



ns 



ns 



ns 



ns 



ns 



ns 



X 



ns 



ns 



ns 



X 



ns 



ns 



Lateral body scales with many (ca. 5-7) accessory scales 

 in posterior field. Maxilla and underside of mandible com- 

 pletely scaled; suborbital region scaled; branchiostegal 

 rays scaled. 



Gill rakers long, ll.3-20.77r HL. and slender on first 

 arch, longest raker in joint between cerato- and hypobran- 

 chials, length of preceding and succeeding rakers progres- 

 sively shorter; rudiments absent. Pseudobranchs 37-38. 



Body color in life and after preservation dark, black to 

 gray, lighter in deeper water, lightening ventrally on belly 

 and occasional reddening from base of pectoral fin to base 

 of anal fin, uniformly dark from soft dorsal fin to anal-fin 

 base; vague darker mottling tapering from origin of soft 



