Biology and morphometry of the oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus (Carcharhinidae), off North-Eastern Brazil

Cybium

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 353-368

  Lessa, Rosangela ^b   Paglerani, Renato ^b   Santana, Francisco Marcante ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

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