Reproductive biology of wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri, off eastern Australia

Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 491-506

  Zischke, Mitchell T ^a,b   Farley, Jessica H ^b   Griffiths, Shane P ^b   Tibbetts, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Maturity; Pelagic; Scombridae; Sex ratio; Spawning

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; FECUNDITY; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SIZE AT MATURITY; SPAWNING POPULATION; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRALIA;

ACANTHOCYBIUM SOLANDRI; SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 84887627412     PISSN: 09603166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11160-013-9304-z     Document Type: Article

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