Skip to content
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Clues to the location of the spawning area and larval migration characteristics of Anguilla mossambica as inferred from otolith microstructural analyses
Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 74, No. 9, Year 2009
Notification
URL copied to clipboard!
Description
The spawning area location and the larval migration characteristics of Anguilla mossambica were studied through the examination of early life-history traits (ELHT) inferred from otolith microstructural analyses of 122 glass A. mossambica collected along the eastern coast of Madagascar, in the south-western Indian Ocean. Backcalculated hatching dates of leptocephali that recruited between November 2005 and February 2006 suggested that spawning was continuous from June to November 2005, although individual migration duration periods were variable. Larvae that exhibited the highest daily otolith growth rates had the shortest leptocephalus durations and total length (LT) at recruitment, possibly because they reached the competence to metamorphose more rapidly and to recruit to fresh waters. Migration durations and LT increased from north to south on the Malagasy eastern coast, supporting earlier suggestions that A. mossambica spawns north-east of Madagascar, west of the Mascarene Ridge in the Indian Ocean. © 2009 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles.
Authors & Co-Authors
Réveillac, É
France, La Rochelle
La Rochelle Université
Robinet, Tony
France, Paris
Museum National D'histoire Naturelle
Rabenevanana, Man Wai
Madagascar, Tulear
Institut Halieutique et Des Sciences Marines Ih.sm
Valade, Pierre B.
France
Association Réunionnaise de Développement de L'aquaculture Arda
Feunteun, Éric
France, Paris
Borea - Research Unit Biology of Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems
Statistics
Citations: 21
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02285.x
ISSN:
00221112
e-ISSN:
10958649
Study Locations
Madagascar