Spawning season, maturity sizes, and fecundity in blacktail comber (Serranus atricauda) (Serranidae) from the eastern-central Atlantic

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-166

  García Díaz, Mercedes ^a   González, José A ^a   Lorente, María J ^b   Tuset, Víctor M ^a  

^a Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; FISH; HISTOLOGY; MATURATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPAWNING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

GYMNOCEPHALUS CERNUUS; SERRANIDAE; SERRANUS ATRICAUDA;

EID: 33747462446     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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