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ONTOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS OF FISHES-AHLSTROM SYMPOSIUM 



Table 93. Egg Characteristics of the Atheriniformes. 



looping 



Phallostethidae 



Gulaphallus mirabilis 



Gulaphallus falcifer 



Melanotaeniidae 



Melanotaenia maccuUochi 



Pseudomugil signata 

 Pseudomugil signifer 



1.0-1.1 



1 



1.5 



1.6 



70-80 do not coalesce 



10-15 large; numerous 

 small, do not 

 coalesce 



Numerous, cluster but 



do not coalesce 

 Numerous 



8 scattered 

 Many in a tuft 



Tuft 



Unbranched, 

 looping 



pers. comm. 



Villadolid and 



Manacop, 1934 

 Manacop, 1936 



Neal R. Foster, 



pers. comm. 

 Neal R. Foster, 



pers. comm. 

 Breder and Rosen, 1 966 



