Meristics is an area of zoology and botany which relates to counting quantitative features of animals and plants, such as the number of fins or scales in fish. A meristic (countable trait) can be used to describe a particular species, or used to identify an unknown species. Meristic traits are often described in a shorthand notation called a meristic formula.
Meristic characters are the countable structures occurring in series (e.g. myomeres, vertebrae, fin rays). These characters are among the characters most commonly used for differentiation of species and populations. In the salmonids, scale counts have been most widely used for the differentiation of populations within species. In rainbow and steelhead trout the most notable differences among populations occur in counts of scales. Meristic comparison is used in phenetic and cladistic analysis.
Meristics is an area of zoology and botany which relates to counting quantitative features of animals and plants, such as the number of fins or scales...
carpio haematopterus (a synonym), but the two differ in genetics and meristics, leading recent authorities to recognize them as separate species. Although...
Quantitative genetics is the study of quantitative traits, which are phenotypes that vary continuously—such as height or mass—as opposed to phenotypes...
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(Bateson 1894). Such features are called meristic characters, and the study of such characters is called meristics. An example is in flowers in considering...
recognized. No differences have been found in mtDNA, morphometrics or meristics between the two supposed species and most authorities now only recognize...
his original sample, he never noted a red tail spot. Using a shorthand meristics formula, O. cyanosoma can be described as having: D, VII + I,9 A II,8...
madagascariensis, which is common in the aquarium trade. In addition to meristics, the two can be separated by the exact colour pattern on their tail fin...
juveniles of certain piscivorous species of Cheilodipterus. Using a shorthand meristics formula, O. compressus can be described as having: D, VI-I,9 A II,9 P...
Placidochromis boops is a species of deep-water African cichlid endemic to the southern portion of Lake Malawi. This species can reach a length of up to...
bluish overall when breeding. The two species can also be separated by meristics. Because many tilapia in aquaculture and introduced around the world are...
Sea) differs in morphometrics, meristics and genetics, and is sometimes recognized as T. japonicus. Morphometric and meristic differences have also been shown...
Adults of the two species are very similar, but can be separated by meristics. Arowanas are sometimes called 'dragon fish' by aquarists because their...
carp and various Asian relatives in their pure forms can be separated by meristics and also differ in genetics, but they are able to interbreed. Common carp...
the scientific name C. carpio haematopterus. However, they differ in meristics from the common carp of Europe and Western Asia, leading recent authorities...
Michail Simaiakis, Sinos Giokas & Zoltán Korsós (2011). "Morphometric and meristic diversity of the species Scolopendra cingulata Latreille, 1829 (Chilopoda:...
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