Albatrossia
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Albatrossia pectoralis, the giant grenadier or giant rattail, is a very large rattail, and the only member of the genus Albatrossia. It is found in the north Pacific from northern Japan to the Okhotsk
Giant grenadier
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Otolith
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An otolith, also called otoconium, statolith, or statoconium, is a calcium carbonate structure in the saccule or utricle of the inner ear, specifically in the vestibular system of vertebrates. The sac
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…Giant grenadier can grow to 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) total length. Giant grenadier have two otolith shapes that have been observed to date, and there is a third shape that seems to be a mixture of the two distinct shapes. Giant grenadier are of low…
Otolith organs showing detail of utricle, otoconia, endolymph, cupula, macula, hair cell filaments, and saccular nerve
Juvenile herring. Length 30 mm; 3 months old; still transparent; the otoliths are visible left of the eye.
Photo of an otolith from an adult European sea bass, caught in the Mediterranean Sea
A pair of sagittae from a Pacific Cod (Gadus macrocephalus)