Dave, This reference may be helpful. I don't recall the particulars of the analysis but I seem to remember that they did some type of quantitative analysis of color, good luck, Robert
Regulation and Significance of Color Patterns of the Spotted Kelpfish, Gibbonsia elegans Cooper, 1864 (Blennioidei: Clinidae), by Carol A. Stepien, Marlen Glattke and Keith M. Fink Robert Leaf email: rl...@vt.edu web: http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rleaf/index.htm