Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 41(1): 67-69, doi: 10.3750/AIP2011.41.1.10
Length–weight relations of selected species of the family Gerreidae (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) from the Mexican coast
J. De La Cruz-Agüero, F.J. García Rodríguez, V.M. Cota Gómez, J.G. Chollet Villalpando, F.J. Vergara SolanaCorresponding author: J. De La Cruz-Agüero © J. De La Cruz-Agüero, F.J. García Rodríguez, V.M. Cota Gómez, J.G. Chollet Villalpando, F.J. Vergara Solana. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
De La Cruz-Agüero J, García Rodríguez F, Cota Gómez V, Chollet Villalpando J, Vergara Solana F (2011) Length–weight relations of selected species of the family Gerreidae (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) from the Mexican coast. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 41(1): 67-69. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2011.41.1.10 |  |
Abstract
In this study, parameters of the length–weight relation (LWR) were estimated for fifteen species of Gerreidae (mojarras) caught from the Pacific- and Atlantic coast of Mexico, including the Gulf of California. The Pacific species were: Diapterus aureolus,Diapterus brevirostris,Eucinostomus currani,Eucinostomus dowii,Eucinostomus entomelas,Eucinostomus gracilis,Eugerres axillaris,Eugerres lineatus,andGerres cinereus. The Atlantic species were:Diapterus auratus,Eucinostomus argenteus,Eucinostomus gula,Eucinostomus jonesi,Eucinostomus melanopterus, and Eugerres plumieri. The values of the exponent b of the length–weight relation ranged from 2.58 to 3.79. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first parameter estimates for nine species for the Mexican coast and for four on a worldwide scale.
Keywords
fish, length–weight relation, Gerreidae, Mexico