Background. In morphometric and allometric analysis, the degree of variation attributable to non-biological causes is ignored. The effects this on subsequent statistical analyzes are unknown. It unclear whether sample conservation induces substantial in shape such affects inference interpretation. Therefore, fish skeletal studies, routinely prepared for osteological studies using a common proce...

This paper presents a fish inventory of the Jordanian Gulf of Aqaba. Fish sampling was conducted by means of different fishing gears, monitoring of local fish market and visual census technique. A total of 507 fish species belonging to 109 families with an average of 4.7 species per family; 18 Chondrichthyes and 489 Ostichthyes. The largest families are as follows (number of species in parenthe...