Table 3 Pearson correlation results between biometric data (total fish length, TL, and body weight, BW) of the investigated species and morphometric sagittal parameters

TL (mm) vs OS

0.6358

0.5169 to 0.7306

 < 0.0001

****

TL (mm) vs OL

0.5933

0.4651 to 0.6971

 < 0.0001

****

TL (mm) vs OW

0.6313

0.5114 to 0.7271

 < 0.0001

****

TL (mm) vs OP

0.5874

0.4580 to 0.6925

 < 0.0001

****

TL (mm) vs OL / TL

-0.5716

-0.6798 to -0.4390

 < 0.0001

****

TL (mm) vs C

0.03367

-0.1442 to 0.2095

0.7116

ns

TL (mm) vs Re

-0.1669

-0.3341 to 0.01043

0.065

ns

TL (mm) vs E

0.0798

-0.0986 to 0.2533

0.380

ns

TL (mm) vs AR

-0.08159

-0.2549 to 0.09684

0.3696

ns

TL (mm) vs FF

-0.04425

-0.2196 to 0.1338

0.627

ns

TL (mm) vs Ro

-0.1244

-0.2950 to 0.05380

0.1703

ns

BW (g) vs OS

0.3184

0.1498 to 0.4690

0.0003

***

BW (g) vs OL

0.2752

0.1032 to 0.4312

0.0021

**

BW (g) vs OW

0.3428

0.1765 to 0.4901

0.0001

***

BW (g) vs OP

0.26

0.08697 to 0.4178

0.0037

**

BW (g) vs OL / TL

-0.378

-0.5203 to -0.2154

 < 0.0001

****

BW (g) vs C

-0.1007

-0.2729 to 0.07770

0.2677

ns

BW (g) vs Re

-0.07778

-0.2513 to 0.1006

0.3925

ns

BW (g) vs E

-0.0255

-0.2017 to 0.1522

0.7789

ns

BW (g) vs AR

0.02288

-0.1548 to 0.1991

0.8017

ns

BW (g) vs FF

0.08955

-0.08890 to 0.2624

0.3246

ns

BW (g) vs Ro

-0.01331

-0.1899 to 0.1641

0.8838

ns