ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e101791
Length-weight relationships of 39 continental shelf and deep-water fishes from Northwestern Gulf of México
expand article infoAriel A. Chi-Espínola‡, M. Eugenia Vega-Cendejas‡, J. Mirella Hernández De Santillana‡
‡ Laboratorio de Taxonomía y Ecología de Peces, CINVESTAV-IPN, Unidad Mérida, Mérida, Mexico

Corresponding author: M. Eugenia Vega-Cendejas ( maruvega@cinvestav.mx )

© Ariel A. Chi-Espínola, M. Eugenia Vega-Cendejas, J. Mirella Hernández De Santillana.
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Abstract

Length and weight relationships (LWR) were estimated for 39 fish species from 30 families from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Fish specimens were sampled during four oceanographic campaigns (February and October 2016, June and September 2017) using a shrimp trawl net and benthic sled net in 20 locations at depths that ranged from 43 to 3,608 m. New maximum standard length (SL) was obtained for Cyclothone alba, C. braueri, C. pseudopallida, and Lepophidium brevibarbe. A positive allometric growth was reported in 22 species and 17 showed a negative allometric growth.

Keywords
Length and weight relationship, Gulf of Mexico, deep-water fish, Cyclothone, continental shelf, bathyal