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Daily growth patterns of six species of young-of-the-year of Chilean intertidal fishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2012

Guido Plaza ,
Mauricio F. Landaeta ,
C. Valeria Espinoza  and
F. Patricio Ojeda
Guido Plaza*
Affiliation:
Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Avenida Altamirano 1480, Casilla 1020, Valparaíso, Chile
Mauricio F. Landaeta
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictioplancton (LABITI), Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y de Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Valparaíso, Avenida Borgoña 16344, Reñaca, Viña del Mar, Chile
C. Valeria Espinoza
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ecologia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
F. Patricio Ojeda
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ecologia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: G. Plaza, Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Avenida Altamirano 1480, Casilla 1020, Valparaíso, Chile email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Otolith microstructure analysis was used to reveal daily growth patterns of young-of-the year (YOY) of six species of perciform fishes, Bovichtus chilensis (Bovichtidae), Girella laevifrons and Graus nigra (Kyphosidae), Helcogrammoides chilensis (Tripterygiidae) and Hypsoblennius sordidus and Scartichthys viridis (Blenniidae). YOY collected in intertidal pools from June to December 2008 in Central Chile, ranged from 24 to 76 mm total length and from 25 to 390 days of age. In the six species, sagittal otoliths showed a slightly oval shape, symmetrical and laterally compressed and showed micro-increments distinguishable after a two-side polishing. Increment width of sagittae showed two patterns irrespective of hatch month and species: (i) a parabolic growth with wider increment widths (during the first 150 of YOY life, e.g. B. chilensis, G. nigra and G. laevifrons); and (ii) a more irregular pattern with lower increment widths during most of the seasons in H. chilensis and H. sordidus. Further results were: (i) a unique central primordium enclosed by two checks after which distinctive increments were deposited; (ii) low instantaneous growth rates estimated through the slope of the length-at-age relationship (range 0.1–0.21 mm d−1); and (iii) a linear fish size–otolith size relationship.

Keywords

otolithincrement widthsagittaeintertidal fishesperciform
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 93 , Special Issue 2: Fish and Fisheries , March 2013 , pp. 389 - 395
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2012

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