Metazoan gill parasites of wild albacore Thunnus alalunga (Bonaterre, 1788) from the Balearic Sea (western Mediterranean) and their use as biological tags

Fisheries Research

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-310

  Mele, Salvatore ^a,b   Merella, Paolo ^b   Macias, David ^c   Gómez, María J ^c   Garippa, Giovanni ^b   Alemany, Francisco ^a  

^a Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological tags; Mediterranean Sea; Parasites; Stock; Thunnus alalunga

Indexed keywords

CAPSALA; CAPSALIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DIDYMOZOIDAE; DIDYMOZOON; METAZOA; MONOGENEA; NEMATOBOTHRIUM LATUM; PSEUDOCYCNUS APPENDICULATUS; ROCINELA; THUNNUS ALALUNGA; TREMATODA;

EID: 77149136070     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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