Evidence of population structure in the giant mottled eel, Anguilla marmorata, using total number of vertebrae

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 2008, Pages 680-688

  Watanabe, Shun ^a   Aoyama, Jun ^a   Miller, Michael J ^a   Ishikawa, Satoshi ^b   Feunteun, Eric ^c   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EEL; HOME RANGE; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMBON [(ISL) MOLUCCAS]; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FRENCH POLYNESIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; JAPAN; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MASCARENE ISLANDS; MELANESIA; MOLUCCAS; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); POLYNESIA; REUNION; SAMOA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAHITI; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

ANGUILLA MARMORATA; ANGUILLIDAE;

EID: 53549106356     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CG-07-080     Document Type: Article

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