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Centropomidae
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n.1.a natural family of fishes comprising the robalos (also called snooks).
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Noun1.Centropomidae - a family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos
family Centropomidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
robalo - a kind of percoid fish
Centropomus, genus Centropomus - type genus of the Centropomidae: snooks
snook - large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
Latinae - a subfamily of the family Centropomidae
genus Lates, Lates - a genus of large percoid fishes of fresh and brackish water
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In this study, I used a generalization of the original von Bertalanffy growth equation and some of its commonly used special cases to estimate parameters from a set of tagging data on times at liberty, lengths at release, and lengths at recapture of a centropomid perch (Lates calcarifer) and provide a method for determining the anabolic and catabolic rates of animals in their natural environment.
Use of the original von Bertalanffy growth model to describe the ... by Xiao, Yongshun / Fishery Bulletin
Common snook have not previously been diagnosed as protandrous hermaphrodites, but another centropomid, the barramundi Lares calcarifer, has been diagnosed as a protandric hermaphrodite (Moore, 1979; Davis, 1982).
Age, growth, maturation, and protandric sex reversal in common snook, ... by Taylor, Ronald G.; Whittington, James A.; Grier, Harry J.; Crabtree, Roy E. / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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