A general approach to length-weight relationships for New Caledonian lagoon fishes

Cybium

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-252

  Kulbicki, Michel ^a,b   Guillemot, Nicolas ^b   Amand, Marion ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Lagoon; Length weight relationships; Morphology; New Caledonia; Reef fish

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745965520     PISSN: 03990974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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