Morphometric analysis of biogenic recording structures within marine organisms has
applications in stock assessment, taxonomics, and ecomorphological studies, with shape …

Otoliths are used in taxonomy and ichthyology as they can provide a wide range of
information about specimens. They are an essential tool to monitor the most sensitive …

Morphological, morphometric, and chemical analysis of otoliths have proven to be useful
tools for intraspecific comparison and identification of fish stocks. In the present study, we …

Otolith morphometrics has been shown to provide a practical basis for stock discrimination
and ageing. This approach has been extensively used by fisheries scientists over the last …

Otolith shape analysis has been extensively employed to distinguish stocks and populations
of marine fish species. While the majority of studies have employed Elliptic Fourier …

During the last decades, there has been a growing interest in the Atlantic chub mackerel,
Scomber colias, owing to its northward expansion across the East Atlantic Ocean. This trend …

The sagitta otoliths are sound transducers that play an important role in the hearing of fishes.
The shape of these structures is known to be affected by a number of genetic and …

The identification of fish species using otolith shape has been common in many fields of the
marine science. Different analytical processes can be applied for the morphological …

The study of the morphological and chemical characteristics of otoliths have recently been
proposed as complementary tools for fish stock identification. However, their effectiveness …

Sagitta otolith shape was analysed in twenty sympatric rockfishes off the southern California
coast (Northeastern Pacific). The variation in shape was quantified using canonical variate …