The Use of Otolith Growth Rings to Age Young Atlantic Silversides, Menidia menidia

Barkman, Robert C.

doi:10.1577/1548-8659(1978)107<790:tuoogr>2.0.co;2

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“…The otolith increment periodicity, or daily ring accumulation, as determined in topsmelt in the present study has been measured previously in many distantly and in two closely related species [3,18,28]. Daily otolith increments of laboratoryreared Atlantic silversides were detected in fish at 15 to 68 dph and were related to age [18]. Inland silverside otoliths also demonstrated daily increments as determined in fieldcollected fish by back-calculations to hatch date [3].…”

Section: Otolith Increment Periodicitysupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Thus, fine‐scale changes in somatic growth, or fish size‐at‐age, can be back‐calculated from otolith increment measurements [17]. Otoliths of some atherinid species, such as Atlantic silversides ( Menidia menidia ), have been validated for use in age and growth studies [18]; however, to our knowledge, validation has not been completed for otoliths of topsmelt ( Atherinops affinis ), a model marine species used in the growth and survival tests required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in effluent toxicity studies [6]. Otoliths have been used to investigate how environmental stressors, such as temperature, oceanographic processes, and food availability, alter fish growth rates [4,19,20], but to our knowledge, otolith growth rate analysis has not been applied to studies of toxicant effects on the growth rates of toxicity test species.…”

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Validation of otolith growth rate analysis using cadmium‐exposed larval topsmelt (Atherinops affinis)

Rose

Hobbs

Nisbet

et al. 2005

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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We applied otolith growth rate analysis to an investigation of cadmium (Cd)-exposed larval topsmelt (Atherinops affinis) to determine if growth rate was a more sensitive measure than somatic growth (body wt or length). Topsmelt otoliths, calcareous concretions in the fish inner ear, formed daily increments, and otolith growth was proportional to somatic growth. Nine-day posthatch larval topsmelt were exposed to Cd (0-100 ppb) in seawater for 14 d and fed low or high ration levels in separate experiments. Whereas Cd impaired topsmelt growth and growth rates, the extent of growth reduction was dependent on the ration level. At high ration levels, otolith and somatic growth rates of fish exposed to Cd (50 and 100 ppb) were significantly reduced; however, no differences in final mean weight and only marginal differences in final mean length of Cd-exposed topsmelt were observed. At low ration levels, we detected reductions in both somatic growth as well as otolith and somatic growth rates of topsmelt exposed to Cd (50 and 100 ppb). Otolith growth rate analysis was more sensitive than growth measurements of Cd-exposed topsmelt, because it allowed the detection of small differences in growth rates even when differences in somatic growth were not observed.

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Validation of otolith growth rate analysis using cadmium‐exposed larval topsmelt (Atherinops affinis)

Rose

Hobbs

Nisbet

et al. 2005

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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“…This study was undertaken to: (a) determine whether otolith diameter is highly correlated to fish total length, and therefore reflects fish growth, for the Atlantic silverside, Menidia menidia; (b) demonstrate in the laboratory that variation in a single environmental variable can cause variation in fish growth that is recorded in the otolith; and (c) try to correlate growth, as recorded in rings of field-captured fish, with changes in the environmental variables of temperature, salinity and food abundance. Previous research has shown that this species deposits daily rings and that otolith ring counts are dependent on age of the fish, not on otolith size (Barkman, 1978).…”

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“…Previous research has shown that this species deposits daily rings and that otolith ring counts are dependent on age of the fish, not on otolith size (Barkman, 1978).…”

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The record of daily growth in otoliths of Atlantic silversides, Menidia menidia, from field and laboratory

Barkman

Bengtson

1987

Journal of Fish Biology

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Otoliths were removed from fieldcollected silversides of age less than 3 months. Otolith diameter was highly correlated with total length of the fish. Daily growth ring counts for this species are known to be a function of age rather than size, so widths for the daily growth rings provide a record of daily increases in length of the fish. Measurement of ring widths showed that weekly specific growth rate was greater than 70% at age 1 week, but declined to about 30% at age 1 month and about 15% at age 2 months. A laboratory experiment in which temperature was changed on a weekly basis demonstrated that environmental variables can affect the width of rings. Nevertheless, the growth rate of field-collected fish, as calculated from otolith ring widths, was more highly correlated with size of fish. as measured by otolith radius, than with the environmental variables of temperature, salinity and plankton abundance. Back-calculation of growth rates from otolith ring widths of five fish collected at the end of the growing season yielded the same age-growth curves as were obtained from 203 fish collected biweekly during the season.

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“…The daily pattern of increments in otoliths in Odontesthes nigricans was identified according to the criteria established by Barkman (1978) and Barkman and Bengston (1987) in Menidia menidia (Linnaeus, 1766); Peñailillo and Araya (1996) in Basilichthys australis Eigenmann, 1928 and Austromenidia regia (Odontesthes regia (Humboldt, 1821)); Gleason and Bengston (1997) in Menidia beryllina (Cope, 1867) and Brown and Fuentes (2005) in Odontesthes bonariensis (Valenciennes, 1835).…”

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Natural growth, otolith shape and diet analyses of Odontesthes nigricans Richardson (Atherinopsidae) from southern Patagonia

Lattuca

Lozano²,

Brown

et al. 2015

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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The Use of Otolith Growth Rings to Age Young Atlantic Silversides, Menidia menidia

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Validation of otolith growth rate analysis using cadmium‐exposed larval topsmelt (Atherinops affinis)

Validation of otolith growth rate analysis using cadmium‐exposed larval topsmelt (Atherinops affinis)

The record of daily growth in otoliths of Atlantic silversides, Menidia menidia, from field and laboratory

Natural growth, otolith shape and diet analyses of Odontesthes nigricans Richardson (Atherinopsidae) from southern Patagonia

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