HOUDE: VITAL RATES, AND ENERGETICS OF MARINE FISH LARVAE 

 Table 2. — Continued. 



Temperature 



Species 



Dry 

 weight 

 Range Midpoint range (mg) 



Growth coefficient 

 (G) 



Range 



(Vlidpoint 



References 



Haemulon 

 flavolineatum HF 



Archosargus 

 rhomboidalis AR 



Pagrus major PM 



Sparus aurata SA 



-25.0 — 30.0 -27.5 



23.0-29.0 26.0 0.01-4.20 



17.0-23.5 20.0 0.05-13.70 



(wet wts) 



15.0-20.0 17.5 0.02-10.00 0.10-0 14 



Cynoscion nebulosus 24.0-32.0 28.0 0.02-160 



CN 



0,02-10.00 -0.24-0.41 0.325 McFarland et al. (1985); 



Sal<sena and Richards 

 (1975)-data on H.plumieri, 

 used to approximate H. 

 flavolineatum. 



0.21-0.41 0.310 Houde (1975, 1978); Stepien 



(1976); Houde and Schekter 

 (1981) 



0,06-0.33 0.195 Fushimi and Nal<atani (1977); 

 Kitajima et al. (1980); 

 Fukushoet al. (1984); 

 Kuronuma and Fukusho 

 (1984) 



0-120 Divanach (1985); Tandler and 

 Helps (1985) 



0,16-0.57 0.365 Taniguchi (1979, 1981 ) 



SM 



Pseudopleuronectes 

 amencanus PA 



Achirus lineatus AL 



Solea solea SS 



2.0-10,0 



28.0 



17.0-19,0 



6,0 



28,0 



0.01-1.45 



0.01-0,20 



18.0 0.30-8,00 



(wet wts) 



0,060 Buckley etal, (1984); 

 Smigielski etal. (1984); 

 Monteleone and Peterson 

 (1986); Buckley etal. (1987) 



0.340 Hunter and Kimbrell (1980) 



0,140 Buckley etal, (1987) 



0.070 Buckley and Dillman (1982) 



0.175 Jones etal. (1974); 



Kuhlmann et al. (1981); 

 Person LeRuyet et al. (1981); 

 Paulsen et al, (1985); Quantz 

 (1985) 

 0,02-0,14 0.080 Laurence (1975,1977); 



Buckley (1982); Cetta and 

 Capuzzo (1982) 



0,16-0,33 0-245 Houde (1977d, 1978); Houde 



and Schekter (1981) 



0,10-0.21 0.155 Ginn (1979); Fuchs (1982); 



Gatesoupe and Luquet 

 (1982) 



Estimated G increased from 0.04 at 5°C to 0.28 

 at 30°C. The Qw. calculated from the predicted 

 G, was 2.11 over the range 5°-30°C. 



Some species deviated considerably from the 

 average regi-ession relationship (Fig. 1; Table 2). 

 For example, Pacific mackerel. Scomber japon- 

 icus, larvae had a high gi'owth rate; however, 

 Atlantic mackerel, S. scombrus, did not deviate 

 much from the regression line. Northern 

 anchovy, Engraulis mordax, also had relatively 



high growth rate, while herring, Clupea 

 harengus, Pacific hake, Merluccius productus, 

 and milkfish, Chaiios chanos, had lower than 

 expected gi'owth rates for their respective tem- 

 perature. The observed variation in growth 

 rates was greatest at high temperature (Fig. 1), 

 indicating that fish larvae at high temperatures 

 and, more generally, in low latitudes have poten- 

 tially more variable growth rates than do larvae 

 at low temperatures from high latitudes. 



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