Age determination of larval strombid gastropods by means of growth increment counts in statoliths

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 857-862

  Grana Raffucci, Félix A ^a,b   Appeldoorn, Richard S ^b  

^a Dept of Nat and Environ Resources ^*  (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

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