Experiments and observations on food consumption, growth and starvation in Dendrochirus brachypterus and Pterois volitans (Pteroinae, Scorpaenidae)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 391-403

  Fishelson, Lev ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fasting; Feeding; Fishes; Food conversion; Lionfish

Indexed keywords

FOOD CONSUMPTION; GROWTH; LION FISH; MATURATION; STARVATION;

RED SEA, GULF OF AQABA;

ANTHOZOA; DENDROCHIRUS BRACHYPTERUS; PANTHERA LEO; PISCES; PTEROINAE; PTEROIS; PTEROIS SPHEX; PTEROIS VOLITANS; SCORPAENIDAE;

EID: 0030710122     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007331304122     Document Type: Article

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