“…Comprehensive knowledge on the osteological ontogeny of fish not only improves our understanding of the functional development and environmental preferences of fish during the early developmental stages, but it is also critical in the early detection of the time and location at which malformed skeletal development occurs under culture conditions (Koumoundouros, Divanach, & Kentouri, ; Tong et al., ). Taking advantage of this, many studies have documented the ontogeny of the skeleton in a wide range of fish species, including Leuresthes tenuis (Valdes, Vasquez, & Yeomans, ), sharpsnout seabream Diplodus puntazzo (Sfakianakis et al., ), large yellow croake Larimichthys crocea (Wang, Ni, Lin, & Wang, ), Caspian roach, rutilus caspicus (Hasanpour, Eagderi, Amiri, & Moradi, ) and Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua (Sæle et al., ).…”