Meristic character counts and incidence of skeletal anomalies in the wild Diplodus puntazzo (Cetti, 1777) of an area of the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea

Fish Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-166

  Favaloro, Eugenia ^a   Mazzola, Antonio ^b  

^a Mare and Ambiente srl   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Meristic characters; Sharpsnout seabream; Skeletal anomalies

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISHERY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA BREAM; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

DIPLODUS PUNTAZZO;

EID: 33748144225     PISSN: 09201742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10695-006-0008-3     Document Type: Article

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