pars superior

pars superior
part of the internal ear of fishes comprising three semicircular canals, q.v., and the sac-like utriculus, q.v. Function is mainly in motion detection but may have some sound reception. Connected to the pars inferior by a short utriculus-sacculus canal in gobies and many cyprinids

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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