Atlas of marine bony fish otoliths (sagittae) of Southeastern-Southern Brazil Part IV: Perciformes (Centropomidae, Acropomatidae, Serranidae, Priacanthidae, Malacanthidae, Pomatomidae, Carangidae, Lutjanidae, Gerreidae and Haemulidae)

Abstract

This publication is part of a series that will constitute an Atlas of Teleostei Otoliths for the Southeastern-Southern Brazilian area. It presents the results of the morphological and morphometric analyses of 31 Perciformes (two species of Centropomidae; two of Acropomatidae; two of Serranidae; two of Priacanthidae; two of Malacanthidae; one of Pomatomidae; six of Carangidae; three of Lutjanidae; five of Gerreidae and six of Haemulidae). Whenever available in the collection, otoliths from three distinct specimen sizes were illustrated and photographed in order to show their variation during development. For each characteristic the frequency of occurrence was calculated within each length class (TL) and among length classes (during development) and differences were analyzed by a multiple χ² test (significance 0.05).

Atlas of marine bony fish otoliths of Southeastern-Southern Brazil Part VIII: Siluriformes (Ariidae) and Pleuronectiformes (Achiridae, Paralichthyidae, Cynoglossidae)

“…The characteristics of the study area and the general methodology applied to the sagittae classification are described in ROSSI-WONGTSCHOWSKI et al (2014), SILIPRANDI et al (2016), BRENHA-NUNES et al (2016). Additionally, due to the Pleuronectiformes asymmetry, the circumsulcal depression feature were analyzed and a new classification were proposed (being complete or incomplete) (Figure 1).…”

“…Nowadays our collection contains around 52,000 pairs of otoliths related to 24 orders, 66 families and 202 species ). Also we have been developing a series of papers providing a permanent visual record of otoliths from the Southeastern-Southern Brazilian coast: ROSSI-WONGTSCHOWSKI et al (2014), SILIPRANDI et al (2016), BRENHA-NUNES et al (2016) and two other: SANTIFICETUR et al 2017and GIARETTA et al 2017GIARETTA et al, 2017 being this volume the last part of the series. Herein, we present the features, measurements and related shape indices of Siluriformes and Pleuronectiformes otoliths.…”