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 …

Otoliths are remarkable recorders that store visual and chemical information that can be
interpreted with regard to individual fish phenotype trajectory, life history events and …

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 …

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 …

Abstract The Brazilian sardine (Sardinella brasiliensis) sustains the most important pelagic
fishery off Brazilian waters. The present study evaluated the existence of distinct population …

This study investigated and compared asymmetry in sagittal otolith shape and length
between left and right inner ears in four roundfish and four flatfish species of commercial …

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 …

Otolith shape analysis is an efficient fish stock identification tool. However, most applications
used left and right otoliths or only one of them arbitrarily chosen without testing for biases …

The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that Atlantic saury stocks from the
Mediterranean Sea and northeastern Atlantic could be identified by means of saggital otolith …