Both-ways sex change in monogamous coral gobies, Gobiodon spp.

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 281-288

  Nakashima, Yasuhiro ^a   Kuwamura, Tetsuo ^b   Yogo, Yutaka ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Showa Women's High School   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gobiidae; Growth rate advantage; Hermaphroditism; Inter group movement; Monogamy; Parental care; Protandry; Protogyny

Indexed keywords

GOBIODON; GOBIODON MICROPUS; GOBIODON OCULOLINEATUS; GOBIODON QUINQUESTRIGATUS; GOBIODON RIVULATUS RIVULATUS;

CORAL GOBY; GROWTH RATE; REEF FISH; SEX CHANGE;

JAPAN, OKINAWA, SESOKO ISLAND;

EID: 0030303425     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00005004     Document Type: Article

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