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Length‐weight relationships of seven fish species from Jequitinhonha River basin, southeastern Brazil
Author(s) -
Salvador G. N.,
Pessali T. C.,
Andrade A. F. A.,
Freitas T. M. S.
Publication year - 2017
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.13502
Subject(s) - biology , fish <actinopterygii> , structural basin , fishery , zoology , paleontology
Summary The present study established the length‐weight relationships (LWR) for seven fish species from Jequitinhonha River basin, a Brazilian coastal drainage, collected with gillnets (3 to 16 cm) between 2011 and 2016. For the LWR, standard length and total weight were used. The allometric coefficient b varied from 2.66 to 3.26. These results provide biological data for a region of extreme biogeographical importance that is suffering serious environmental disturbances.