Age and growth of the scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, in the north-west Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-40

  Piercy, Andrew N ^a   Carlson, John K ^b   Sulikowski, James A ^a   Burgess, George H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Sphyrnidae; Vertebrae

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; AGE DETERMINATION; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; SHARK; SIZE AT MATURITY; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

CHONDRICHTHYES; SPHYRNA LEWINI; SPHYRNIDAE;

EID: 33846569509     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF05195     Document Type: Article

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