Jawad Laith A
4 Tinturn Place, Flat Bush, Manukau, Auckland 2016, New Zealand.
J Fish Biol. 2018 Dec;93(6):1046-1058. doi: 10.1111/jfb.13787.
A comparative morphological investigation of otoliths from six parrotfish species and two genera, Scarus and Hipposcarus, was conducted to identify taxonomically diagnostic species-specific characters. Ontogenetic trends in otolith morphology were evident: Otoliths of small-sized specimens were most like those of large-sized Scarus oviceps and were least similar to large-sized Hipposcarus longiceps.