Asymmetry in some morphological characters of four sparid fishes from Benghazi, Libya

• Authors: L.A. Jawad
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Asymmetry analyses were conducted on some bilateral characters of four members of the family Sparidae, Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758), Diplodus anularis (Linnaeus, 1758), Diplodus vulgaris (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) and Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) which were collected from coastal waters near Benghazi City, Libya. The results indicated that the highest asymmetry level is in the post-orbital length character. Eye lens diameter and eye lens weight exhibited the lowest asymmetry values.

Keywords

EN

MORPHOLOGY; SPARID FISH; SPARIDAE

Discipline

• AQUATIC_SCIENCES: AQUATIC SCIENCES

• Publisher: Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdansk
• Journal: Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies
• Year: 2003
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 83-88

Contributors

author

L.A. Jawad

• Document Type: ARTICLE
• Publication order reference: L.A. Jawad, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, 169 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand