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Electronic Supplementary Material

Table E1.1 List of the 197 fishes recorded following rotenone sampling of the 58 sites around Buck Island, and categories allocated within this study

Note that 68 species judged to be non-cryptic were removed from the data set. Species were removed if they were surveyed during underwater visual censuses by NOAA at 70 sites around Buck Island (data described in Smith-Vaniz et al. 2006) or ~200 sites across The Bahamas (Harborne et al. 2008). Note that 11 species (Apogon quadrisquamatus, Chaenopsis limbaughi, Coryphopterus dicrus, Coryphopterus tortugae, Ctenogobius saepepallens, Elacatinus evelynae, Gnatholepis thompsoni, Malacoctenus boehlkei, Malacoctenus triangulatus, Ophioblennius macclurei, and Paradiplogrammus bairdi) recorded during the visual censuses at Buck Island were not removed from the data set because these species are from families that are typically under-sampled without ichthyocides (Ackerman and Bellwood 2000). Five additional species were removed either because they were appropriate for surveys using visual methods (e.g., co-generic or co-familial species recorded during visual censuses) but were not seen during surveys in St Croix or The Bahamas, or attain considerably larger sizes than the 5-10 cm limit typically applied to cryptobenthic species (Depczynski and Bellwood 2003; Depczynski and Bellwood 2005). These species were Abudefduf taurus, Bothus maculifera, Doratonotus megalepis, Pareques acuminatus, and Plectrypops retrospinis. Three other species (Atherinomorus stipes, Jenkinsia lamprotaenia, and Sardinella aurita) were excluded because they occur in large schools and are not behaviourally cryptic. Finally, data for 20 species identified as piscivorous (Froese and Pauly 2010) were removed.

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