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Biology and Culture of Percid Fishes pp 227–237Cite as

Development of the Sense Organs in Percid Fishes

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Morphology and arrangement of various receptors in Teleostei indicate trophic and environmental preferences of different species. In the Percidae family, the sensory system begins to develop during embryogenesis and evolves over the larval and juvenile stages. The olfactory placodes develop between 26 (Gymnocephalus sp.) and 78 (walleye, Sander vitreus) hours post fertilization (hpf). However, the olfactory epithelium becomes fully developed at the age of about 1 month, as in the pikeperch (Sander lucioperca). During the ontogeny of fish, taste buds develop later than the olfactory system. In pike-perch juveniles, the first taste buds appear 13 days post hatching, primarily in the mouth and the gills, but later on they become visible in other parts of the body. During embryonic development of percids, the eye is the first sense organ to form. Gymnocephalus sp. show well developed eyes already after 26 hpf, while in walleye embryos the optic vesicles are fully formed after 70 hpf. Fish maintain body balance thanks to their inner ear (labyrinth), while the movement and vibration in the surrounding water is detected by canal neuromasts of the lateral line and superficial neuromasts of the skin. In the embryos of different percid species auditory vesicles appear after 26–70 h of development, while the lateral line – after 103 h.

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  1. Division of Ichthyobiology and Fisheries, Faculty of Animal Science, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Ciszewskiego 8, 02-786, Warsaw, Poland

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Kamaszewski, M., Ostaszewska, T. (2015). Development of the Sense Organs in Percid Fishes. In: Kestemont, P., Dabrowski, K., Summerfelt, R. (eds) Biology and Culture of Percid Fishes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7227-3_7

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