Age and Growth of the Starspotted Dogfish Mustelus manazo from Tokyo Bay, Japan

Fisheries Science

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 919-922

  Yamaguchi, Atsuko ^a   Taniuchi, Toru ^a   Shimizu, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Growth; Mustelus manazo; Sex ratio; Tokyo Bay; X radiography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000561069     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.62.919     Document Type: Article

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