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A Preliminary Account of the Production of Annual Rings in the Scales of Plaice and Flounders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2010
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It is only within comparatively recent times that it has been proved that the otoliths and scales of certain Teleostean fish can be used for the determination of their age.
Rings of growth, as they are called, are produced on these structures, and it is by counting the number that the age is ascertained, in much the same way as the approximate age of a tree may be determined by counting the annual rings.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , May 1918 , pp. 470 - 496
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1918
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