Age Determination of Aquatic Animals
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2025) | Viewed by 1326
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Understanding the age metrics of marine organisms is crucial in the estimation of baseline parameters such as growth rate, population age structure, mortality rate, productivity and recruitment.
The age of most aquatic species can often be determined by examining the growth bands preserved in calcified structures. These structures include, for example, bones, scales and otoliths in fish, statoliths in cephalopods, ossicles in echinoids (i.e., sea urchins), ophiuroids (i.e., brittle stars) and asteroids (sea stars), and shells in bivalves. In crustaceans, the number of growth bands in gastric ossicles may be used to determine the age of this group. Before applying the age information provided by these hard structures, validation (one band indicates one year of age) must be conducted.
Fishes invites interested scientists to submit manuscripts that are relevant to this topic. The manuscripts will be reviewed carefully in a short period of time so that all accepted papers can be published in this Special Issue.
Dr. Raouf W. Kilada
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- age
- validation
- growth
- shells
- cephalopod
- echinoderms
- crustaceans
- fish
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