Age and growth of the blacknose shark, Carcharhinus acronotus in the western North Atlantic Ocean with comments on regional variation in growth rates

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-178

  Driggers III, William B ^a,b   Carlson, John K ^c   Cullum, Brian ^a   Dean, John M ^a   Oakley, Doug ^d   Ulrich, Glenn ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcharhinidae; Elasmobranch; Life history; Small coastal shark

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SHARK; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

CARCHARHINIDAE; CARCHARHINUS; CARCHARHINUS ACRONOTUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042644002     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-004-0105-z     Document Type: Article

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