Family
Species
References
Mn
Mu
Ms
Ml AAS HI
Remarks
Holocentriformes
Holocentridae
Sargocentron
xantherythrum
Popper ( 1977 )
S
2
Saccular tip attached to skull
bone
Myripristis murdjan
(Fig. 5c )
Popper ( 1977 );
Nelson ( 1955 );
Parmentier
et al. ( 2011 )
mA
2a +
Dorsal to ms: large area of
supporting cells; saccular tip
attached to skull bone
Ophidiiformes
Carapidae
Encheliophis
boraborensis
Parmentier
et al. ( 2001 )
Large saccule; left, right
saccules and lagenae touch
each other
Encheliophis homei
Parmentier
et al. ( 2002 )
Stalk-like connection
(=canaliculus) between lagena
and ear
Carapus acus
Froese ( 1938 );
Kéver et al.
( 2014 )
Sb close to skull (distance ca. 3
mm); canaliculus between
lagena and ear
Ophidion rochei
Kéver et al.
( 2014 )
Sb close to skull (distance ca. 5
mm); canaliculus between
lagena and ear
Batrachoidiformes
Batrachoididae
Porichthys notatus
Coffi n et al.
( 2012 ); Forlano
et al. ( 2014 );
Sisneros ( 2009 )
S
Semicircular canals run around
large saccule; common canal
present
Opsanus beta
(Fig. 6c )
Popper ( 1981 )
D
2
Opsanus tau
Sokolowski
and Popper
( 1987 );
Edds-Walton
and Popper
( 1995 )
D
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