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A review of length–weight relationships of fishes from freshwaters of Turkey
Author(s) -
TorcuKoç H.,
Erdogan Z.,
Treer T.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of applied ichthyology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1439-0426
pISSN - 0175-8659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0426.2006.00709.x
Subject(s) - biology , fish <actinopterygii> , turkish , value (mathematics) , fishery , zoology , statistics , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy
Summary This paper presents 145 length–weight relationships gathered from the literature pertaining to 30 Turkish freshwater fish species belonging to six families. The value of the slope b ranged from 2.04 for Carassius carassius to 3.46 for Scardinus erythroptalmus . The mean value of b was 2.91 (SD = 0.305), which did not differ significantly from 3.0 ( t ‐test, P > 0.05). The median value of b was 2.95; 50% of the b values ranged from 2.68 to 3.14. The plot of log a vs b was used to detect outliers.