Brooding season, sex ratio, and brood pouch development in the seaweed pipefish, Syngnathus schlegeli, in Otsuchi Bay, Japan

Ichthyological Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 155-160

  Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brood pouch; Pipefish; Reproductive season; Seagrass bed; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; HALOPHILA; SYNGNATHUS SCHLEGELI;

EID: 0035539897     PISSN: 13418998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10228-001-8130-9     Document Type: Article

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