The Gulf Stream (GS) is a major oceanographic feature with potential to influence the recruitment of larval fishes to continental shelf habitats in the southeastern United States. To test the hypothesis that the GS is a source of certain larval fishes to Onslow Bay, North Carolina, we (i) classified water masses as shelf, GS, GS front (GSF), or GS/shelf mixture (GS/S); (ii) compared larval fish assemblages and concentrations a...

The ontogeny of haematopoiesis in the perciform fish, spot Leiostomus xanthurus , differed from that reported as the norm for fishes, as exemplified by the cypriniform zebrafish Danio rerio , and observed in the batrachoidiform oyster toadfish Opsanus tau . Erythropoiesis in spot was first evident in the head kidney of yolk‐sac larvae 3 days after hatching (DAH). No embryonic intermediate cell mass (ICM) of primitive stem cell...