Variation in gillraker number during growth of the sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (Perciformes: Moronidae), reared at different salinities

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 391-398

  Loy, Angelo ^a   Corti, Marco ^b   Cataudella, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Branchial sieve; Ecophenotypism; Fish; Geographic variation; Meristics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; PERCID; SALINITY; TAXONOMY;

DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX;

EID: 0032798332     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007548102060     Document Type: Article

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