A modified decalcification technique for enhancing growth bands in deep-coned vertebrae of elasmobranchs

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-230

  Correia, João P ^a   Figueiredo, Ivone M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Blackmouth catshark; Fish; Galeus melastomus; Nitric acid

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; GROWTH BAND ENHANCEMENT; VERTEBRA DECALCIFICATION;

GALEUS MELASTOMUS;

EID: 0030863461     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007368025164     Document Type: Article

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