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Regression relationship parameters and descriptive coefficients between fish length and otolith parameters
| Species | Sex | N | Measurements | Parameters of the relationship | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equation | r2 | p | ||||
| S. elongata | Combined | 68 | OL (μm) | log(TL) = 0.752 × log(OL)—0.026 | 0.82 | <0.001 |
| OW (μm) | log(TL) = 0.741 × log(OW)—0.815 | 0.85 | <0.001 | |||
| Male | 28 | OWe (g) | log(TL) = 2.271 × log(OWe)—9.741 | 0.73 | <0.001 | |
| Female | 40 | OWe (g) | log(TL) = 1.686 × log(OWe)—7.895 | 0.75 | <0.001 | |
| S. notata | Combined | 56 | OL (μm) | log(TL) = 1.022 × log(OL)—0.970 | 0.93 | <0.001 |
| OW (μm) | log(TL) = 0.921 × log(OW)—1.577 | 0.77 | <0.001 | |||
| Male | 30 | OWe (g) | log(TL) = 2.741 × log(OWe)—11.643 | 0.88 | <0.001 | |
| Female | 26 | OWe (g) | log(TL) = 2.596 × log(OWe)—11.492 | 0.88 | <0.001 | |
| S. scrofa | Combined | 70 | OL (μm) | log(TL) = 0.867 × log(OL)—0.404 | 0.90 | <0.001 |
| OW (μm) | log(TL) = 0.724 × log(OW)—0.801 | 0.86 | <0.001 | |||
| OWe (g) | log(TL) = 2.050 × log(OWe)—9.134 | 0.88 | <0.001 | |||
| H. dactylopterus | Combined | 54 | OL (μm) | log(TL) = 0.711 × log(OL)—0.001 | 0.77 | <0.001 |
| OW (μm) | log(TL) = 0.644 × log(OW)—0.411 | 0.95 | <0.001 | |||
| OWe (g) | log(TL) = 1.968 × log(OWe)—8.874 | 0.98 | <0.001 | |||
Minimum and maximum OL (μm), OW (μm), OW (g) and SDs of four scorpaenid fish species collected from Antalya Bay, Mediterranean Sea coast of Türkiye
| Species | Sex | N | Variables | Left | Right | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min–Max | Mean ± SD | Min–Max | Mean ± SD | |||||
| S. elongata | Male | 14 | OWe (g) | 0.012–0.088 | 0.054 ± 0.021 | 0.012–0.088 | 0.053 ± 0.020 | 0.03 |
| Female | 20 | OWe (g) | 0.029–0.150 | 0.072 ± 0.026 | 0.029–0.146 | 0.072 ± 0.025 | 0.48 | |
| Combined sexes | 34 | OL (μm) | 0.006–0.014 | 0.010 ± 0.002 | 0.006–0.014 | 0.010 ± 0.002 | 0.53 | |
| OW (μm) | 0.003–0.006 | 0.004 ± 0.001 | 0.003–0.006 | 0.004 ± 0.001 | 0.04 | |||
| OWe (g) | 0.012–0.150 | 0.064 ± 0.026 | 0.012–0.146 | 0.064 ± 0.025 | 0.91 | |||
| S. notata | Males | 15 | OWe (g) | 0.012–0.066 | 0.048 ± 0.019 | 0.013–0.067 | 0.048 ± 0.019 | 0.81 |
| Females | 13 | OWe (g) | 0.013–0.067 | 0.049 ± 0.021 | 0.012–0.069 | 0.049 ± 0.022 | 0.92 | |
| Combined | 28 | OL (μm) | 0.006–0.012 | 0.010 ± 0.001 | 0.006–0.012 | 0.010 ± 0.002 | 0.95 | |
| OW (μm) | 0.003–0.005 | 0.004 ± 0.001 | 0.002–0.005 | 0.004 ± 0.001 | 0.97 | |||
| OWe (g) | 0.012–0.067 | 0.048 ± 0.02 | 0.012–0.069 | 0.048 ± 0.02 | 0.84 | |||
| S. scrofa | Combined sexes | 35 | OL (μm) | 0.004–0.002 | 0.009 ± 0.002 | 0.004–0.012 | 0.009 ± 0.002 | 0.92 |
| OW (μm) | 0.002–0.006 | 0.004 ± 0.001 | 0.002–0.006 | 0.004 ± 0.001 | 0.98 | |||
| OWe (g) | 0.011–0.114 | 0.049 ± 0.026 | 0.010–0.106 | 0.049 ± 0.026 | 0.96 | |||
| H. dactylopterus | Combined sexes | 27 | OL (μm) | 0.005–0.012 | 0.009 ± 0.002 | 0.005–0.012 | 0.009 ± 0.002 | 0.17 |
| OW (μm) | 0.003–0.006 | 0.005 ± 0.001 | 0.003–0.006 | 0.005 ± 0.001 | 0.62 | |||
| OWe (g) | 0.015–0.122 | 0.059 ± 0.029 | 0.015–0.125 | 0.058 ± 0.030 | 0.89 | |||