A Preliminary Account of the Production of Annual Rings in the Scales of Plaice and Flounders
- 7 May 1917
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 11 (4) , 470-496
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400073896
Abstract
It is only within comparatively recent times that it has been proved that the otoliths and scales of certain Teleostean fish can be used for the determination of their age. Rings of growth, as they are called, are produced on these structures, and it is by counting the number that the age is ascertained, in much the same way as the approximate age of a tree may be determined by counting the annual rings.Keywords
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- The Periodic Growth of Scales in Gadidæ as an Index of AgeJournal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1904