Spawning Cycle of Two Dragonet Species, Calliurichthys japonicus and Repomucenus huguenini, in Tosa Bay, Southern Japan

Fisheries Science

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-21

  Gonzales, Benjamin Jareta ^a,b   Taniguchi, Nobuhiko ^a   Okamura, Osamu ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b State Polytech Coll Palawan I   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Dragonet; Length at maturity; Spawning; Tosa bay

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013473022     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.63.15     Document Type: Article

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