and weighed 318 to 949 g, while females ranged 

 from 263 to 673 mm TL and 408 to 3,706 g (Fig. 

 1). The length-weight relationship for North Caro- 

 lina gulf flounder can best be expressed as log w = 

 -5.24 + 3.134 log / for 75 specimens (sexes com- 

 bined), r = 0.957 (Fig. 1). Little change occurred 

 when the male data was removed because the female 

 length-weight relationship was virtually the same: 

 log w = -5.018 + 3.053 log I (N = 62), r = 0.955. 

 Vick's (1964) large specimen, 710 mm TL, 5,000 g, 

 fits right on our regression curve. Thus, there is 

 little doubt that his specimen was P. albigutta be- 

 cause P. dentatus does not occur in the Gulf of Mex- 

 ico (Robins and Ray 1986), and P. squamilentus or 

 P. lethostigma possess other distinguishing meristic, 

 morphometric, and ecological requirements (Vick 

 1964; Gutherz 1967). 



The maximum known upper size and weight can 

 now be raised to at least 673 mm and 3,706 g in 

 North Carolina. 



Acknowledgments 



Thanks are extended to the North Carolina 

 Marine Reef program personnel, which included 

 G.W.S., for assisting in collecting flounders in 1975. 

 Val and Henry Page produced Figure 1; Charleen 

 Miller, Texas A&M Research Foundation, was in- 

 strumental in locating Vick's 1964 report; and 

 Brenda Bright typed the manuscript. 



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Institute of Marine Sciences 

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FUNCTIONAL REGRESSION EQUATIONS FOR 



ZOOPLANKTON DISPLACEMENT VOLUME, 



WET WEIGHT, DRY WEIGHT, AND CARBON: 



A CORRECTION 



The objective of this note is to point out the fact that 

 the first nine equations published by Wiebe et al. 

 (1975, table 2) were those appropriate for the Y on 

 X regressions; they were not the functional regres- 

 sion equations as originally claimed. This mistake 

 was discovered as a result of correspondence with 

 F. A. Ascioti (Dip. di Biologia Animale Ed Ecologia 

 Marina; Universita di Messina; Via Dei Verdi 75; 

 98100 Messina ITALY). This table 2 should have had 

 the following equations in it: 



Equation 



Regression equation 



N 



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