Reproductive biology of the marbled goby, Pomatoschistus marmoratus (Pisces, Gobiidae), in a northern Aegean estuarine system (Greece)

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 447-456

  Koutrakis, Emmanuil T ^a   Tskliras, Athanassios C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Maturity; Sex ratio; Spawning

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FECUNDITY; PERCIFORM; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPAWNING;

GOBIIDAE; PISCES; POMATOSCHISTUS MARMORATUS;

EID: 73949090084     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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