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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)
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| Description:
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| Sphoeroides
spengleri larva |
| 6.8 mm SL |
| San Blas, Panama, SB83-173 |
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| Sphoeroides
spengleri transitional recruit |
| 8.2 mm SL |
| San Blas, Panama, SB83-149 |
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| 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.
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| Sphoeroides
sp. larva |
| 5.7 mm SL |
| San Blas, Panama, SB83-173 |
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| Sphoeroides
sp. larva |
| 7.0 mm SL |
| San Blas, Panama, SB83-173 |
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| Sphoeroides
sp. larva |
| 5.9 mm SL |
caudal peduncle pigment
edge at a
forward angle |
| San Blas, Panama, SB86-408 |
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