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BH B. Hayden
MP M. L. D. Palomares
BS B. E. Smith
JP J. H. Poelen
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Max length of each species was obtained from FishBase23. FishBase predominantly records max length as either standard length (snout to posterior end of the last vertebrae) or total length (snout to tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin). As only one type of measurement was available for each species we were forced to include an assumption that this level difference in length would not be sufficient to bias our analysis (a comparison of model fits for all fish TP, n = 1881, and SL, n = 679, fish which supports this assumption is presented in Supporting Fig. S1). Due to a distribution skewed towards small sized fishes, species length data were log transformed prior to analysis. Species length values were obtained using rFishBase (ver 5/2017)23.

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