Tropical eels Anguilla spp. recruiting to Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean: Taxonomy, patterns of recruitment and early life histories

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 259, Issue , 2003, Pages 263-272

  Robinet, Tony ^a   Lecomte Finiger, Raymonde ^b   Escoubeyrou, Karine ^b,c   Feunteun, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

Author keywords

Anguilla spp.; Indian Ocean; Migration; Otoliths; Recruitment age; R union Island

Indexed keywords

EEL; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; LIFE HISTORY; OTOLITH; RECRUITMENT; SPAWNING; TAXONOMY;

INDIAN OCEAN; REUNION;

ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA BICOLOR; ANGUILLA BICOLOR BICOLOR; ANGUILLA MARMORATA; ANGUILLA MOSSAMBICA; ANGUILLA NEBULOSA; ANGUILLIDAE; ANGUILLIFORMES; CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; MARMORATA;

EID: 0141925407     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps259263     Document Type: Article

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