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Statolith identification of Mediterranean Octopodidae, Sepiidae, Loliginidae, Ommastrephidae and Enoploteuthidae based on warp analyses
Lombarte, Antoni
Rufino, Marta M.
Sánchez, Pilar
5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
The statoliths of 14 species (193 right statoliths from subadult to adult individuals), belonging to five Cephalopoda families (Sepiidae, Loliginidae, Enoploteuthidae, Ommastrephidae and Octopodidae) were analysed using morphometric methods based on landmarks (geometric morphometry). The aim of the current study is to determine the discriminating power of statolith shape analysis in species identification
of Mediterranean cephalopods. Discriminant analyses of the partial warps were able to fully identify (100% discrimination) the species of all families, except Octopodidae which showed some misclassi¢cation (correctly classi¢ed about 68-90%). These results were also shown by relative warp analysis. Octopodidae statoliths were studied for the first time using geometric landmark-based methods. Greatest differences in statolith shape between Octopodidae species, were in the area that unites the statolith dome with the flat wing. Landmark analysis applied to statoliths can be a useful taxonomic tool in the identi¢cation of closely related species.
Peer reviewed
2010-03-10T16:20:05Z
2010-03-10T16:20:05Z
2006-08
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 86(4): 767-771 (2006)
0025-3154
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/22229
10.1017/S0025315406013683
en
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315406013683
open
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application/pdf
Cambridge University Press