Evidence of spawning and the larval distributions of snipe eels (Family Nemichthyidae) in the Sargasso Sea

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 298-309

  Wippelhauser, Gail S ^a,b   Miller, Michael J ^a   McCleave, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b State House Station 93   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION; LARVAE; LARVAL DISTRIBUTION; SNIPE EEL; SPAWNING;

SARGASSO SEA;

AVOCETTINA INFANS; LABICHTHYS CARINATUS;

EID: 0029669795     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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