Morphology Comparison of Cranium, Orbital Bone, and Jaw Bone Skeletons of Nine Species of Scorpaenidae Fish

This study was conducted to investigated the morphology comparison of cranium, orbital bone, and jaw bone skeletons of nine species of Scorpaenidae fish; Sebastes inermis, Sebastes thompsoni, Sebastes schlegelii, Sebastes vulpes, Helicolenus hilgendorfi, Inimicus japonicus, Sebasticus marmoratus, Sebasticus tertius, and Inimicus japonicus. Samples were collected from December, 2012 to May, 2013 in fisheries market in Yeosu, Korea and were applied to analyzes such as morphology of skeleton. As a result, taxonomic characteristics of skeleton were vomer, frontal, sphenotic, parietal, the second suborbital bone, dentary, articular, and angular.