Late winter larval mesopelagic fish assemblage in the Kuroshio waters of the western North Pacific

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 121-133

  Sassa, Chiyuki ^a,c   Kawaguchi, Kouichi ^a   Mori, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bathylagidae; Expatriation; Kuroshio; Larval fish assemblage; Mesopelagic fish larvae; Myctophidae; Spawning migration

Indexed keywords

ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MIGRATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPAWNING;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BATHYLAGIDAE; BATHYLAGUS; BATHYLAGUS OCHOTENSIS; DIAPHUS; MYCTOPHIDAE; MYCTOPHUM ASPERUM; NOTOSCOPELUS; NOTOSCOPELUS JAPONICUS; SIGMOPS; SIGMOPS GRACILIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542648686     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.2003.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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