dc:description"FIGURE 6. Left lateral view of caudal peduncle region of: (A) Assiculus punctatus, WAM P. 31013 - 012, 51.3 mm SL (redrawn from Gill & Hutchins 1997: fig. 2 B); and (B) Assiculoides desmonotus, WAM P. 31085 - 009, 46.6 mm SL, holotype (redrawn from Gill & Hutchins 1997: fig. 2 A). Fin membranes shown in dark grey; representative scale row shown in pale yellow. Anterior procurrent rays are obscured by scales.";
dc:description"FIGURE 1. Cladogram of relationships discussed in the text. Numbers indicate autapomorphies of Assiculus and Assiculoides, and unambiguous synapomorphies relating terminal taxa (modified from Springer et al. 1977, Godkin & Winterbottom 1985). Character: 1, parhypural not separate from hypurals 1 + 2; 2, total caudal-fin rays 27 or fewer; 3, infraorbital bones five or fewer; 4, pu 2 haemal spine attached to centrum; 5, opercle with prominent serrations ventral to subopercle junction; 6, anteroventral scale rows on posterior body and caudal peduncle oriented almost vertically; 7, dorsal fin connected to caudal fin by membrane; 8, hypural 5 reduced or absent; 9, pelvic-fin rays I, 4 or fewer; 10, at least some pelvic-fin rays unbranched; 11, only anterodorsal lateral line present; 12, hypochordal longitudinalis muscle inserts on only two caudal-fin rays; 13, palatine teeth absent; 14, lateral extrascapula attached firmly to skull; 15, posterior tip of infraorbital 5 does not contain anterior continuation of pterotic laterosensory canal; 16, supraoccipital crest reduced to ridge of bone; 17, pectoral-fin rays 15 or fewer; 18, opercular spine present; 19, epibranchial 1 plate-like; 20, branchiostegal membranes united; 21, caudal vertebrae 22 or more.";
dc:description"FIGURE 3. Left lateral view of caudal skeletons of Assiculoides desmonotus: (A) WAM P. 30929 - 008, 41.3 mm SL, paratype, with short pu 2 neural spine; (B) WAM P. 30929 - 008, 46.2 mm SL, paratype, with long pu 2 neural spine. UNF, uroneural fragment. Other methods of presentation follow Figure 2.";
