Morphometric And Meristic Variation In European Hake, Merluccius Merluccius, From The Northeast Atlantic And Mediterranean Sea ...
No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Morphometric and meristic variation was used to investigate the European hake population structure. Samples were collected from the following selected areas: Sothwest of Ireland (Great Sole Bank), Bay of Biscay, Galician waters (Nort...
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ASC 2001 - J - Theme session
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25635666 https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Morphometric_And_Meristic_Variation_In_European_Hake_Merluccius_Merluccius_From_The_Northeast_Atlantic_And_Mediterranean_Sea/25635666 |
| Summary: | No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Morphometric and meristic variation was used to investigate the European hake population structure. Samples were collected from the following selected areas: Sothwest of Ireland (Great Sole Bank), Bay of Biscay, Galician waters (Northwest of Spain), Atlantic coast of Morocco, and waters of the Balearic Islands. A total of 15 different measurements were taken from each of 289 fish collected. Three meristic characters were also counted in the specimens from Bay of Biscay, Galicia and Morocco. The morphometric measurements were standardized to a grand mean standard length using an allometric formula. Meristic and morphometric characters were analysed by univariate and multivariate statistics. Morphometric discriminant functions were able to correctly classify the 69% of the samples. The areas: Bay of Biscay, Balearic Islands and Great Sole had the higher levels of discrimination with a values greater than 73%. These results cast doubt on the ... |
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