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Comparative morphology of the urohyal bone of fishes collected from the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2016

Laith A. Jawad ,
Fatima Laghai Khahe Jahromi ,
Azad Teimori ,
Hamidreza Mehraban  and
Hamid R. Esmaeili
Laith A. Jawad*
Affiliation:
Flat Bush, Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand
Fatima Laghai Khahe Jahromi
Affiliation:
Ichthyology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71454, Iran
Azad Teimori
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Hamidreza Mehraban
Affiliation:
Ichthyology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71454, Iran
Hamid R. Esmaeili
Affiliation:
Ichthyology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71454, Iran
*
Correspondence should be addressed to:L.A. Jawad, Flat Bush, Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand email: laith_jawad@hotmail.com
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Abstract

The urohyal is incorporated within the hyoid and branchial arches and performs a significant role in the mouth opening-closing mechanism of fishes, and is considered a synapomorphy of teleostean fishes. Morphological variation of the urohyal, in terms of size and shape parameters, can allow species identification. Morphology of the urohyal in 49 species belonging to 43 genera and 29 families from the Persian Gulf and from the Oman Sea were compared using size and shape measurements. The results examine the suitability of using the urohyal morphology in differentiating fish species from this region; highlighting the taxonomic value of the urohyal, which until now, had been studied little in terms of use as a diagnostic feature in the classification of teleosts.

Keywords

fish skeletontaxonomyteleostosteologyidentification
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 97 , Issue 6 , September 2017 , pp. 1317 - 1333
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2016 

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