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Identifying growth parameters for two endemic species [ C apoeta antalyensis ( B attalgil, 1943) and P seudophoxinus antalyae B ogutskaya, 1992] in D uden C reek, A ntalya, T urkey
Author(s) -
Innal D.
Publication year - 2014
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/jai.12191
Subject(s) - biology , genus , zoology , ecology
Summary It is hypothesized that C apoeta antalyensis (Battalgil, 1943) and P seudophoxinus antalyae (Bogutskaya, 1992) might display specific growth characteristics that differ from other species of their genus. Age and growth were described for species from D uden C reek ( A ntalya, T urkey) from February 2008 to January 2009. The length–weight relationship for all individuals were described by the parameters: a = 0.0143 and b = 2.946 for C . antalyensis and a = 0.0084 and b = 3.251 for P . antalyae . The von B ertalanffy growth parameters based on data from scales were L∞ = 35.78 cm, k = 0.251 year −1 and t 0 = −0.30 for C . antalyensis and L∞ = 22.59 cm, k = 0.232 year −1 and t 0 = −0.78 for P . antalyae . The growth characteristics for these two species are not much different from those of closely related species from the same genus.