Sagittal otolith size and shape variability to identify geographical intraspecific differences in three species of the genus Merluccius

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 333-342

  Torres, Gabriel J ^a   Lombarte, Antoni ^a   Morales Nin, Beatriz ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; CHILE; GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OTOLITH; PERU; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URUGUAY;

ECOMORPHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION;

MERLUCCIUS; MERLUCCIUS GAYI; MERLUCCIUS HUBBSI; MERLUCCIUS MERLUCCIUS;

EID: 0034028694     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315499001915     Document Type: Article

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