“…Differences among larvae of Sebastomus species are quite small (e.g., Moser, 1996b;Rocha-Olivares, 1998;RochaOlivares et al, 2000), and currently larvae of none of these species can be reliably identified with traditional morphological and pigment characters. Complete larval development for any Sebastomus species is still unknown; to date, extrusion larvae are known for 7 of the 15 species, and some later stages are known for 4 species, including the cape redfish (S. capensis) of the Southern Hemisphere (e.g., Westrheim et al 1 ;Moser, 1967;Moser et al, 1977;Richardson and Laroche, 1979;Moser and Butler, 1987;Matarese et al, 1989;Sabatés and Olivar, 1990;Moser, 1996b;Rocha-Olivares et al, 2000). Larvae of another species, probably buccaneer rockfish (S. exsul) or spinyeye rockfish (S. spinorbis), have been described through the postflexion stage (Moser et al, 1977).…”