Nicholas Wallis Mauro

Typifying tiny teeth: A standardized coding system to quantify morphological variation in fish teeth for comparative ecological, evolutionary, and functional morphological studies

Abstract Teeth play a crucial role in vertebrate ecology as one of the main interfaces between predators and their prey. As the most diverse vertebrates on the planet, and the dominant vertebrate consumers in nearly all aquatic ecosystems, fishes – and their teeth – thus play an...