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. 2009 Jan 20;5(2):235–239. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0722

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Life stages and selected skeletal elements of cetomimid whalefishes. (a) Eutaeniophorus festivus postlarva, BSKU 51970, 56 mm SL, approximately 816 mm TL, photo courtesy of Masanori Nakamachi, ‘Sea Fishes of Japan’ © YAMA-KEI Publishers Co., Ltd. P. brevis?: (b) postlarva, Cozumel, Mexico, photo courtesy of Donald Hughes; (c) postlarva, KPM NI13654: (i) photo courtesy of Yasuhiro Morita, (ii) photo courtesy of Sandra Raredon, USNM; (d) larva, MCZ 59910, 13 mm SL, photo courtesy of Chris Kenaley, © President and Fellows of Harvard College; (e) Ataxolepis apus adult male, USNM 391648: (i) dorsal view of nasal organs, (ii) lateral view of viscera, enlarged liver on left, enlarged testes dorsal and ventral right, intestine middle right. (f) Gyrinomimus sp., juvenile female, NE Pacific, photo courtesy of Bruce Robison, MBARI. (g(i), h(i), i(i)) Cranium and anterior vertebrae, and (g(ii), h(ii), i(ii)) left jaws, palatine arch, suspensorium and operclular bones of (g) E. festivus postlarva, USNM 391655, 60 mm SL, (h) A. apus adult male, USNM 391649, 58 mm SL and (i) C. regani female, USNM 391657, 93 mm SL, respectively. Blue ‘ovals’ enclose maxillae, premaxillae and rostral cartilage, which, in (h(ii)) are fused to each other and to broken nasals. (g–i) Photo courtesy of G.D.J.