Morphological variation between red mullet populations in Greece

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-117

  Mamuris, Z ^a   Apostolidis, A P ^b   Panagiotaki, P ^a   Theodorou, A J ^a   Triantaphyllidis, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greek marine waters; Morphometrics; Mullus barbatus; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

GENETIC STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION; MORPHOMETRICS; RED MULLET; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

GREECE;

MULLUS BARBATUS;

EID: 0031912807     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfbi.1997.0565     Document Type: Article

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