Reproductive strategies in macrourid fish: Seasonality or not?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 184, Issue , 1999, Pages 189-196

  D'Onghia, G ^a   Basanisi, M ^a   Matarrese, A ^a   Megli, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biology; Macrourids; Mediterranean; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ICHTHYOFAUNA; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEASONALITY;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; CAELORINCHUS; CAELORINCHUS CAELORHINCUS; COELORHYNCHUS COELORHYNCHUS; GADIFORMES; HYMENOCEPHALUS ITALICUS; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MACROURIDAE; NEZUMIA SCLERORHYNCHUS; SCLERORHYNCHUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033612721     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps184189     Document Type: Article

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