| 31. | Otoliths are generally easier to read than scales and are more accurate, being internal and never reabsorbing like scales.
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| 32. | Otoliths are composed of a crystalline calcium carbonate structure, in the form of aragonite, on a protein matrix.
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| 33. | They contain the sensory hair cells and otoliths of the macula of utricle and duct that connect the saccule and utricle.
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| 34. | Often the sagittae are analyzed for growth as they are the largest of the three otoliths and therefore easiest to remove.
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| 35. | :There is a very fundamental homology of otoliths and statoliths ( in statocysts ) throughout the animals, even in Scyphozoa.
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| 36. | In human beings the otoliths and semi-circular canals ( in the inner ear ) are used to maintain balance and orientation.
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| 37. | Otoliths, unlike scales, do not reabsorb during times of decreased energy making it even more useful tool to age a fish.
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| 38. | This fish has the largest ears ( otoliths ) and the smallest brain in relation to its body size of all known vertebrates.
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| 39. | Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV, is a disorder caused by the breaking off of a piece of otoconia from the otoliths.
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| 40. | Smooth toadfish grow steadily larger as they grow older, with one long individual calculated to be 13 years old from examination of its otoliths.
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