Short communication: Identification and morphometric descriptions of four dominant families of larval fishes in the estuary of Marudu Bay, Sabah, East Malaysia
2016
Rezagholinejad, S. | Ehteshami, F. | Arshad, A. | Amin, S.M.N. | Ara, R.
Fish larvae are mostly ecologically and morphologically different in comparison with their adult counterparts along their development processes. They occupy different habitats, taking different food resources, and having different predators and different behaviour. During the larval phase, the fish develops from an egg to a larva which has all the fully functional organs. Many species have highly specialized larval morphologies, with various structures (e.g. strong spines on the head) that will be modified and lost upon transition towards adulthood (Leis and Carson-Ewart, 2000). Fish larvae differ so much from their adults that they are often difficult to identify.
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