scorpaeniformes: MORPHOMETRIC VARIABLES OF SCORPAENIFORMES

In VARSEDIG: An Algorithm for Morphometric Characters Selection and Statistical Validation in Morphological Taxonomy

MORPHOMETRIC VARIABLES OF SCORPAENIFORMES

Description

Morphometric data of several marine fish species of the order Scorpaeniformes, as the length of the dorsal fin base (M12), body height (M11), etc. For details see Guisande et al. (2010).

Usage

data(scorpaeniformes)

Format

An array (matrix) with 31 columns: taxonomic data (order, family, genus and species) and 27 morphometric variables.

References

Guisande, C., Manjarrés-Hernández, A., Pelayo-Villamil, P., Granado-Lorencio, C., Riveiro, I., Acuña, A., Prieto-Piraquive, E., Janeiro, E., Matías, J.M., Patti, C., Patti, B., Mazzola, S., Jiménez, S., Duque, V. & Salmerón, F. (2010) IPez: An expert system for the taxonomic identification of fishes based on machine learning techniques. Fisheries Research, 102, 240-247.

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