Table 1.

Summary of the pattern of mineralized teeth in juvenile cuckoo catfish (S. multipunctatus) and the congeneric S. lucipinnis from 5 dpf to 12 dpf. PMAX = premaxillary teeth; DENT = dentary teeth. Data are counts from of a single specimen for each species at each age.

days post-fertilization (dpf)	S. multipunctatus	S. lucipinnis
5	24 oral teeth (10 PMAX, 14 DENT)	8 oral teeth (8 PMAX, 8 DENT)
6	40 oral teeth (16 PMAX, 24 DENT)	14 oral teeth (8 PMAX, 6 DENT)
7	44 oral teeth (16 PMAX, 28 DENT)	24 oral teeth (12 PMAX, 12 DENT)
8	64 oral teeth (24 PMAX, 40 DENT)	24 oral teeth (12 PMAX, 12 DENT)
9	68 oral teeth (28 PMAX, 40 DENT)	28 oral teeth (14 PMAX, 14 DENT)
10	72 oral teeth (32 PMAX, 40 DENT)	32 oral teeth (18 PMAX, 14 DENT)
11	90 oral teeth (40 PMAX, 50 DENT)	no data
12	90 oral teeth (40 PMAX, 50 DENT)	40 oral teeth (20 PMAX, 20 DENT)