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B 
C 
Figure 4 
Degree of development of scales on blind sides of dorsal- 
and anal-fin rays and method of counting caudal-fin rays 
and hypurals for western Atlantic species of Symphurus. 
(A) Dorsal- and anal-fin rays with small ctenoid scales 
along their lengths. (B) Species with 12 caudal-fin rays 
and five hypurals (in black). (C) Species with 10 caudal- 
fin rays and four hypurals (in black). 
San Francisco (collections formerly at Stanford Uni- 
versity); IBUNAM: Institute de Biologia, Universidad 
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, DF; IMS: 
Marine Sciences Institute, University of Texas at 
Austin, Port Aransas; INIDEP: Institute Nacional 
de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pesquero, Mar del 
Plata; UFPB: Departamento de Sistematica e 
Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Parafba, Joao 
Pessoa; UMML: Rosenstiel School of Marine and At- 
mospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami (now 
part of University of Florida (UF) collections; add 
200,000 to original UMML catalog number); USU: 
Universidade Santa Ursula, Rio de Janeiro; ZMA: 
Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 
Amsterdam (now Institute for Systematics and Popu- 
lation Biology, Zoologisch Museum). 
