Food habits, gut morphology and pH, and assimilation efficiency of the zebraperch Hermosilla azurea, an herbivorous kyphosid fish of temperate marine waters

Marine Biology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 515-522

  Sturm, E A ^a   Horn, M H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGAE; CARBON; DRY WEIGHT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FERMENTATION; INTESTINE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN; PH; PROTEIN;

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; DIET; DIGESTION; FISH; HERBIVORE; PHYSIOLOGY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

HERMOSILLA AZUREA; KYPHOSUS; POLYSIPHONIA;

EID: 0031785928     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002270050417     Document Type: Article

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