The sagittal otolith of 348 species, belonging to 99 families and 22 orders of marine
Teleostean fishes from the north and central eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean …

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 …

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 …

Shape analyses were carried out on otoliths of the common sole, Solea solea (Linnaeus,
1758), in order to discriminate local populations in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea …

Systematic assignment of fossil otoliths is virtually always based on studies of otolith
morphology and subsequent comparisons with otoliths from collections and/or literature …

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 …

A comparison of 681 saccular otoliths (sagitta) from 134 species belonging to six demersal
communities from different depth strata and the epipelagic community from the north …

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

Sagittal otolith shapes were investigated in order to identify three sympatric species of south
Caspian gobies (Caspian goby Neogobius caspius, deepwater goby Ponticola bathybius …