Spawning and fecundity of Jenyns's sprat, Ramnogaster arcuata, a winter spawner in the temperate waters of the Río de la Plata estuary, Argentina-Uruguay

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 423-429

  Rodrigues, Karina A ^a,b   Macchi, Gustavo J ^a,b   Acha, Eduardo M ^a,b,c   Militelli, María I ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO PESQUERO INIDEP   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Clupeidae; Estuarine front; Histology; Reproduction; Spawning ground

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FECUNDITY; HISTOLOGY; SPAWNING; TELEOST; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ARGENTINA; RIO DE LA PLATA; SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

CLUPEIDAE; RAMNOGASTER ARCUATA; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 41149169519     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002531540800057X     Document Type: Article

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