Live prey first feeding regimes for short-snouted seahorse Hippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758) juveniles

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Otero Ferrer, Francisco ^a   Molina, Lucía ^a   Socorro, Juan ^a   Herrera, Rogelio ^b   Fernández Palacios, Hipólito ^a   Soledad Izquierdo, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Usos Múltiples II Prof Millares Carlo   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artemia; First feeding; Lipids; Rotifers; Seahorse

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMETRY; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FEEDING MECHANISM; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; LIPID; MORTALITY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PREY PREFERENCE; TELEOST; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; ARTEMIA; HIPPOCAMPINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS (FISH); HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS; ROTIFERA; SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM;

EID: 77955946960     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: 13652109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2010.02505.x     Document Type: Article

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