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Discrimination of red mullet populations (Teleostean,Mullidae) along multi-spatial and ontogenetic scales within the Mediterraneanbasin on the basis of otolith shape analysis*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2012

Fabien Morat ,
Yves Letourneur ,
David Nérini ,
Daniela Banaru  and
Ioannis E. Batjakas
Fabien Morat
Affiliation:
Centre d’Océanologie de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, UMR CNRS 6540 DIMAR, Campus universitaire de Luminy, Case 901 13288 Marseille Cedex 09 France
Yves Letourneur*
Affiliation:
Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Laboratoire LIVE, 145 avenue James Cook, BP R4, 98851 Nouméa Cedex New Caledonia
David Nérini
Affiliation:
Centre d’Océanologie de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, UMR CNRS 6117 LMGEM, Campus universitaire de Luminy, Case 901 13288 Marseille Cedex 09 France
Daniela Banaru
Affiliation:
Centre d’Océanologie de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, UMR CNRS 6117 LMGEM, Campus universitaire de Luminy, Case 901 13288 Marseille Cedex 09 France University Ovidius of Constanta, 124 bd Mamaia 900527 Constanta Romania
Ioannis E. Batjakas
Affiliation:
University of the AegeanDepartment of Marine Sciences, University Hill, 81100 Mytilini Lesvos Island Greece
*
a Corresponding author: yves.letourneur@univ-nc.nc
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Abstract

Otolith shape analyses were conducted on three different species of Mullidae (Mullus barbatus barbatus, M. b. ponticus and M. surmuletus). The otolith shape was described by 19 harmonics from elliptic Fourier descriptors. In a first step, their comparison through canonical discriminant analyses (CDA) was run for all fish with right otoliths, left otoliths and both otoliths pooled. The latter possibility had a higher discriminating power and allowed much more visually explicit results. This implied that the two otoliths were not similar as often claimed, and had each their specific information. In a second step, the CDA demonstrated strong spatial discrimination of local populations from various areas within the Mediterranean basin, i.e. NW Mediterranean, Aegean Sea and Black Sea, and between sites within each area. The percentage of well classified individuals of M. barbatus in predefined groups varied between 78 to 100% depending on sites, and even reached 100% for each site for M. surmuletus. These spatial patterns were most likely linked to differences in environmental conditions between areas and sites, such as effects of strong river runoffs and differences in depths and/or habitat types. In a third step, CDA also evidenced ontogenetic discriminations of mullet populations that could be linked (i) to influence of diet of fish of various sizes and (ii) to changes in physiological conditions according to the stage of development of the fish.

Keywords

OtolithShapeanalysisEnvironmental influencesFluctuating asymmetryMullidaeMediterranean
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Research Article
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Aquatic Living Resources , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 27 - 39
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© EDP Sciences, IFREMER, IRD 2011

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Supporting information is only available in electronic form at http://www.alr-journal.org

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