Colección de referencia de otolitos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar-CSIC

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This collection is a catalogue of otoliths stored in a database. The database is regularly updated and at present (12/09/2008) it contains a total of 2315 high resolution images corresponding to 687 species and 155 families from the Western Mediterranean Sea, Weddell Sea and Antartic Peninsula, Southwestern Atlantic (Uruguay and Argentina, Northwestern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico), Northeastern Atlantic (From Senegal to North Sea), Southeastern Atlantic (Namibia), Indic (Tanzania) and Pacific (New Caledonia, Alaska, Canada, Perú, and Chile). The AFORO website offers an open online catalogue of otolith images and its associated shape analysis through pattern recognition techniques applying Fourier transform (FT), curvature space scale (CSS) and wavelet analysis (WT). This site also includes an Automatic Taxon Identification which allows to search and identify directly using query images of otholits.

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Temporal extent	1975-11-13 – 2010-07-01
Date (publication)	2014-04-30
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show