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- Title
Growth pattern of the young of the year Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi Marini, 1933 (Gadiformes Merluccidae) along the Brazilian and Uruguayan coasts.
- Authors
Lorenzo, María Inés; Vaz-dos-Santos, André M.; Rossi-Wongtschowski, Carmen Lúcia D. B.
- Abstract
Morphology and morphometry of the sagittae otolith were studied in young of the year Argentine hake, Merluccius hubbsi in the Southeastern Atlantic. Geographical variation in the growth pattern of the young of the year Merluccius hubbsi was correlated with the differences found in otolith morphometry, relative growth, ring positions, as well as the formation of a new ring. The otolith development of M. hubbsi throughout its area of distribution accompanies an increasing northward temperature gradient, resulting in bigger otoliths and greater variability of ring position from northern to southern area. The canonical discriminate analysis showed that the otolith length and height explained most of the variation of the first discriminant function. We found significant differences in the discriminant scores between those samples from northern and southern area. As regards the Uruguayan coast and Southern Brazil, age groups zero shared some similarity as well as differences in growth; environmental features explain these differences but their effect on the adult fishes growth is still unknown.
- Subjects
ARGENTINE hake; OTOLITHS; ANIMAL morphology; MORPHOMETRICS; ANALYSIS of variance; FISH surveys
- Publication
Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2011, Vol 91, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
0378-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10641-011-9768-4