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Figure 5 
Fishes under a Sargassum weedline observed during underwater video recordings, August 1999, off Cape Hatteras, North 
Carolina. (A) Small planehead filefish ( Stephanolepis hispidus ) amongst the Sargassum , (B) larger, more mobile jacks 
(carangids) below the Sargassum, (C) large predators (Coryphaena hippurus [dolphinfish]) using Sargassum habitat, (D) 
schooling of Aluterus monoceros (unicorn filefish) at a 45 tJ angle, (E) Stephanolepis hispidus pursuing and picking at a 
lobate ctenophore ( Mnemiopsis leidyi), and (F) edge of a Sargassum weedline. 
