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The sexual mechanism of the reef bass Pseudogramma bermudensis and its implications in the classification of the Pseudogrammidae (Pisces: Perciformes)

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Abstract

The reef bass, Pseudogramma bermudensis, is an hermaphroditic percoid in which the testicular tissue is confined to a median lobe in the mid-dorsal wall of the oviduct. Development of an invagination of the ventral oviducal wall is correlated with the presence of maturing ova. These unique features indicate that Pseudogramma has had a separate evolutionary history and is not closely related to either the hermaphroditic Serranidae or the Grammistidae.

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  1. Dept. of Ichthyology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, 10024, New York, New York, USA

    C. Lavett Smith & Ethel Hafter

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Lavett Smith, C., Hafter, E. The sexual mechanism of the reef bass Pseudogramma bermudensis and its implications in the classification of the Pseudogrammidae (Pisces: Perciformes). Z. Morph. Tiere 65, 315–326 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00298823

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