speciesfishmove: Morphological Data for various Fish Species

Description Usage Format Author(s) Source References

Description

Data of length and aspect ratio of the caudal fin (Pauly, 1989) for various fish species (appr. 40 species). Accompanying dataset for function fishmove originating from fishbase.org (Froese and Pauly, 2011).

Usage

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Format

This dataframe contains following columns:

FAMILY

scientific name of fish family

SPECIES

scientific name of fish species

LENGTH

common fish length in mm

ASPECT.RATIO

aspect ratio of the caudal fin (Pauly, 1989)

Author(s)

Johannes Radinger

Source

Froese, R. and Pauly D. (2011) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (12/2011).

References

Pauly, D. (1989) A simple index of metabolic level in fishes. Fishbyte, Newsletter of the Network of Tropical Fisheries Scientists 7, 22.


fishmove documentation built on May 1, 2019, 9:04 p.m.