Intraspecific variability of the saccular and utricular otoliths of the hatchetfish Argyropelecus hemigymnus (Cocco, 1829) from the Strait of Messina (Central Mediterranean Sea)

• Claudio D’Iglio,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7626-7447

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• Sergio Famulari,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5234-4900

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• Marco Albano,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0635-2755

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• Alex Carnevale,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Dario Di Fresco,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Mariachiara Costanzo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Giovanni Lanteri,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Nunziacarla Spanò,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical, Dental and Morphological and Functional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Serena Savoca ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Serena Savoca, Gioele Capillo

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ssavoca@unime.it

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical, Dental and Morphological and Functional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5207-6582

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• Gioele Capillo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Serena Savoca, Gioele Capillo

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2002-1138

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