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39). These data only suggest racial differentiation, for the overlap 

 in the frequency distributions of the gill raker counts from these two 

 general areas (see table 71) is too great to recognize them as subspecies. 



Table 71. — Number of gill rakers in Parupeneus trifasciatus, by locality 



1 Raker at the angle of the arch was included only in the total count. 



Table 72. — Diameter of eye and length of snoiit as a percentage of standard length 

 in Parupeneus trifasciatus /rcre various Indo-Pacific localities, by size groups 



Table 73. — Length of head and barbel as a percentage of standard length in Paru- 

 peneus trifasciatus from various Indo-Pacific localities, by size groups 



