Metabolic responses to hypoxia of Lycenchelys verrillii (wolf eelpout) and Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (witch flounder): Sedentary bottom fishes of the Hatteras/Virginia middle slope

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 57-61

  Moser, Mary L ^a   Ross, Steve W ^b   Sulak, Kenneth J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Continental slope; Deep sea fishes; Pleuronectidae; Respiration; Zoarcidae

Indexed keywords

GLYPTOCEPHALUS CYNOGLOSSUS; LYCENCHELYS VERRILLII;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP-SEA FISH; HYPOXIA; METABOLIC RESPONSE; OXYGEN; RESPIRATION; WITCH FLOUNDER; WOLF EELPOUT;

ATLANTIC, CAPE HATTERAS SLOPE; ATLANTIC, VIRGINIA MIDDLE SLOPE;

EID: 0030302926     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps144057     Document Type: Article

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