Growth, natural mortality, length-weight relationship, maximum length and length-at-first-maturity of the coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-52

  Froese, Rainer ^a   Palomares, Maria Lourdes D ^a  

^a WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Biomass; Embryogenesis; Food consumption; Life span; Von Bertalanffy growth function

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; MATURATION; MORTALITY; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

LATIMERIA CHALUMNAE;

EID: 0034034805     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007602613607     Document Type: Article

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