“…The lateral line scales themselves demonstrate a good deal of interspecific variation (Voronina, 2007;Voronina and Hughes, 2017), some of which can be explained by changes in developmental timing (Voronina and Hughes, 2013). Furthermore, morphological variation is found between scales in the rostral and caudal portions of the trunk canal in some taxa (e.g., labrids; Webb, 1990), among the multiple trunk canals in Hexagrammos (Wonsettler and Webb, 1997) and Xiphister (Clardy et al, 2015), and between the trunk canals on the eyed versus the blind side of the body in flatfishes (e.g., Voronina, 2009aVoronina, , 2009b.…”