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Fig. 180. Juvenile banded stages of five species of Hemiramphus and Oxyporhamphus micropterus. (A) Hemiramphus balao (Le Sueur); 

 USNM 200592; off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; 53.7 mm SL; (B) He saltator (GWben and Starks); SIO 55-247; Gulf of Panama; 49.5 mm 

 SL; (C) He. depauperatus Lay and Bennett; Hawaii Inst. Mar. Biol.; Hawaiian Is.; 41.4 mm SL; (D) He. far (ForsskSl); USNM 148020; Persian 

 Gulf; 47.0 mm SL; (E) He. hrasiliensis (Linneaus); USNM 188748; off North Carolina; 50.0 mm SL; (F) Oxyporhamphus micropterus similis 

 Bruun; USNM 159032; Gulf of Mexico; 41.2 mm SL. A-B, D-F drawn by Mildred H. Camngton; C by Keiko Hiratsuka Moore. 



