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men ted rays, and the frequent occurrence of a well-developed thirteen tli 

 dorsal spine are characters that E. stellifer shares with E. decussatun 

 and E. vermiculatus and which I believe relate E. stellifer with those 

 species. 



Remarks. — Entomacrodus stellifer has been collected with or from 

 the same restricted geographic area as E. thalassinus (both sub- 

 species), E. decussatus, E. striatus, E. niuafoouensis , and E. 

 sealei. 



TABLE 16. — Frequency distribution of number of segmented dorsal and anal rays 

 and vertebrae of subspecies of Entomacrodus stellifer arranged geographically 



TABLE 17. — Frequency distribution of number of pseudobranchial filaments of 

 subspecies of Entomacrodus stellifer arranged by SL classes (in mm) 



Classes 



15-15.9 



20 



25 



30 



35 



40 



45 



50 



55 



60 



65 



70 



75 



80 



85 



90 



95 



Pseudobranchial filaments 



lighti 



10 



stellifer 



7 ) 



