Weight-length relationships for demersal fish species caught off the Madeira archipelago (eastern-central Atlantic)

Journal of Applied Ichthyology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-95

  Ferreira, S ^a   Sousa, R ^a   Delgado, J ^a   Carvalho, D ^a   Chada, T ^a  

^a Direcção de Serviços de Investigação das Pescas ^*  (Portugal)

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BENTHODESMUS SIMONYI; DEANIA PROFUNDORUM; MURAENA HELENA; POLYPRION AMERICANUS;

EID: 38049121202     PISSN: 01758659     EISSN: 14390426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0426.2007.01027.x     Document Type: Article

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