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This is the second of three papers devoted to the interpretation of morphological development in altricial and precocial species within the genus Lucania. The focus of this paper was the early life history of the bluefin killifish, Lucania goodei. Reproductively mature specimens were collected in the run below Newport Spring, north of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Florida. These specimens were transported to the laboratory, where they served as brood stock for specimens described in this study. Offspring were reared under controlled conditions and were described according to the theory of saltatory ontogeny, which gives a sampling design based on morphological, rather than chronological, progression. The morphological development of these offspring is described on the basis of detailed illustrations, photomicrographs, and measurements of mensural and meristic characters. This account of early ontogeny, in combination with a corresponding study on the early ontogeny of the rainwater killifish, L. parva (Crawford & Balon 1994a), establishes the empirical basis for an altricial-precocial life history model (Crawford & Balon 1994b).
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Crawford, S.S., Balon, E.K. (1994). Alternative life histories of the genus Lucania: 2. Early ontogeny of L. goodei, the bluefin killifish. In: Balon, E.K., Bruton, M.N., Noakes, D.L.G. (eds) Women in ichthyology: an anthology in honour of ET, Ro and Genie. Developments in environmental biology of fishes 15, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0199-8_26
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