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| | Diagnosis:
Puffer with modal fin rays D-8 A-7 and a row of spots along ventral side. Larvae
and transitional recruits with large eye, uppermost pectoral ray and first dorsal
ray about half the length of the next ray, and pigment absent along half or more
of the dorsal caudal peduncle in smaller larvae (below about 8 mm SL). (ML) | |
| Description:
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| Sphoeroides spengleri
larva | | 6.8 mm SL | | San
Blas, Panama, SB83-173 | |  | | |  |
| Sphoeroides spengleri
transitional recruit | | 8.2 mm SL |
| San Blas, Panama, SB83-149 | |  | | |  |
| Sphoeroides spengleri
juvenile | | 18.0 mm SL | | San
Blas, Panama, SB83-149 | |  |
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| | Diagnosis:
Puffer with modal fin rays D-8 A-7. Larvae with smaller eye than S.
spengleri, uppermost pectoral ray and first dorsal ray about 75% the length
of the next ray, and pigment along most of the dorsal caudal peduncle extending
down vertically or at a forward angle. These larvae have a more coppery coloration
than S. spengleri. This type in Panama may
represent S. greeleyi, although
S. dorsalis, S. testudineus, S. nephelus and three obscure southern Caribbean
species (the exuberantly eponymic S. georgemilleri,
S. tyleri, and S. yergeri) cannot be excluded. | |
| Description: |
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| Sphoeroides sp.
larva | | 5.7 mm SL | | San
Blas, Panama, SB83-173 | |  |
| Sphoeroides sp.
larva | | 7.0 mm SL | | San
Blas, Panama, SB83-173 | |  | | |  | | |  |
| Sphoeroides sp.
larva | | 5.9 mm SL | caudal
peduncle pigment edge at a
forward angle | | San
Blas, Panama, SB86-408 | |  |
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