Otoliths in bony fishes play an important role in the senses of balance and hearing. Otolith
mass and shape are, among others, likely to be decisive factors influencing otolith motion …

Bony fishes are the principal group of backboned animals in contemporary aquatic settings.
Extant species are the focus of a vigorous program of macroevolutionary research, but …

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 …

Otolith features are useful tools for studying taxonomy, ecology, paleontology, and fish
biology since they represent a permanent record of life history. Nevertheless, the functional …

The morphology and morphometry of otoliths have emerged as powerful indicators of
ecological characteristics of fishes. However, shape descriptors that can accurately predict …

Otolith shape analysis has been one of the most used approaches to study population
structure in the past decades. Currently, two sets of shape descriptors are used to perform …

This study aims to investigate the discrimination and the phylogenetic relationship of five
Scorpaena species (S. elongata, S. maderensis, S. notata, S. porcus, and S. scrofa) …

Mesopelagic species are enjoining increasing attention due to the growing impact of
fisheries activities on deep marine biocenosis. Improving the knowledge base on …

Otoliths (ear stones) of the inner ears of teleost fishes, which develop independently from the
skeleton and are functionally associated with hearing and the sense of equilibrium, have …

Otoliths of actinopterygians are calcified structures playing a key role in hearing and
equilibrium functions. To understand their morphological diversification, we quantified the …