Contrasting patterns of growth and migration of tropical anguillid leptocephali in the western Pacific and Indonesian Seas

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 309, Issue , 2006, Pages 233-246

  Kuroki, Mari ^a   Aoyama, Jun ^a   Miller, Michael J ^a   Wouthuyzen, Sam ^b   Arai, Takaomi ^a   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Eel; Growth; Leptocephalus; Metamorphosis; Migration; Otolith

Indexed keywords

EEL; GROWTH; METAMORPHOSIS; MIGRATION; OTOLITH;

INDONESIAN SEAS; MARIANA ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

ANGUILLA MARMORATA; ANGUILLIDAE;

EID: 33645807861     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps309233     Document Type: Article

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