Results Information on capture date, body length, sex, age, number of gill rakers of the first gill arch, and type of fixative of some of the fishes are tabulated in Table 1. The species is determined on the basis of the number of gill rakers of the first gill arch. The fishes kept in the aquaria lived for only 48 h. After 24 h the fin bases and the wounds caused by nets during capture became re In later studies we shall