Table. 
Counts recorded for certain species of Promicrops and Epinephelus 
socialis 
Number of fin rays 
Number of rakers (including rudiments) on first gill arch. 
Dorsal 
Pectoral 
Above angle 
At 1 
1 
angle 
Below angle 
XI 
XII 
13 
14 
15 
16 
i,15 
i 3 16 i,17 
i,18 
i,19 
8 
9 
10 11 12 
13 
14 
1 
c 
i 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 18 19 
20 
21 
22 
Promiorops 
s 
itaiara 
18 
- 
- 
- 
14 
4 
- 
1 
32 
3 
1 
5 
9 2 
- 
- 
17 1 
6 
9 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
lanceolatus 
8 
1 
- 
5 
4 
- 
- 
11 
6 
5 
3 
- 
- 
1 
I 
8 
! 1 
3 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Epinephelus 
tauvina 
12 
mm 
1 
11 
. 
16 
6 
1 1 
4 
5 
- 
5 
socialis 
9 
- 
- 
2 
7 
- 
2 
16 
3 
5 
1 
- 
- 
9 
- 
« 
- 
- 
4 3 2 
- 
- 
- 
horridus 
21 
- 
- 
10 
11 
7 
31 4 
- 
- 
1 
17 
3 
- 
- 
21 
— 
1 
17 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
fusooguttatus 
11 
- 
- 
11 
- 
_ 
3 
18 
1 
- 
- 
1 7 
2 
1 
11 
i _ 
i 
i 
- 
- 
1 
3 12 
3 
- 
1 
Total 
number of gill 
rakers 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 31 
32 
33 
34 
35 
Promiorops 
itaiara 
- 
- 
9 
4 
2 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
% 
lanceolatus 
1 
1 
4 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
* “ 
- 
- 
- 
• 
Epinephelus 
- 
tauvine 
1 
4 
_ 
m i 
_ 
horridus 
fusooguttatus 
13 
i ^ i 
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