ISSN:
1439-0426
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Biology
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Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
Notes:
Fish larvae are often hard to identify because body proportions and pigmentation may change considerably in the course of larval development. Modern relational databases provide features such as choice fields (only one choice from a list of predefined entries is allowed for a field), query-by-forms (a very user friendly way of searching), and graphics. About 80 descriptive, meristic and metric characters of postlarvae have been recognized as useful for identification. For 126 species of fish larvae from the Northeast Atlantic these characters have been identified with values from the literature. It is shown that (a) a microcomputer-based database can be used to build a very efficient identification system, and (b) that drawings and descriptions from the literature can be successfully employed to build identification keys.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.1990.tb00499.x
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