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Identification of tenuis of four French Polynesian Carapini (Carapidae: Teleostei)

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Four species of adult Carapini (Carapidae) occur on Polynesian coral reefs: Encheliophis gracilis, Carapus boraborensis, C. homei and C. mourlani. Samples collected in Rangiroa and Moorea allowed us to obtain different tenuis (larvae) during their settlement phases or directly inside their hosts. These were separated into four lots on the basis of a combination of pigmentation, meristic, morphological, dental and otolith (sagittae) features. Comparison of these characters with those of the adults allows, for the first time, taxonomic identification of these tenuis-stage larvae.

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  1. Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6, Université de Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium, , , , ,

    E. Parmentier &  P. Vandewalle

  2. Laboratory d'Ichthyoécologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, CNRS URA 1453, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan, France, , , , ,

    A. Lo-Yat

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Parmentier, .E., Lo-Yat, .A. & Vandewalle, .P. Identification of tenuis of four French Polynesian Carapini (Carapidae: Teleostei). Marine Biology 140, 633–638 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-001-0726-0

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