Evidence of a local spawning site of marine eels along northeastern Japan, based on the distribution of small leptocephali

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-190

  Kimura, Yobuo ^a   Miller, Michael J ^a   Minagawa, Gen ^a   Watanabe, Shun ^a   Shinoda, Akira ^a   Aoyama, Jun ^a   Inagaki, Tadashi ^a   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congridae; Leptocephali; Marine eels; Nettastomatidae; Ophichthidae; Spawning

Indexed keywords

EEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPAWNING; SPAWNING GROUND;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

CONGRIDAE; GNATHOPHIS NYSTROMI NYSTROMI; NETTASTOMATIDAE; OPHICHTHIDAE;

EID: 33645026711     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2005.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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