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O (juvenile) 



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Figure 3.— Squid of each stage of maturity illustrating those morphometric changes which the discriminant analysis 

 showed to be important, a. Juvenile and immature squid (stages 1, 2). b, Maturing and mature or ripe squid (stages 3, 4). 

 The diagrams are drawn to scale using the mean values of the morphometric characters given in Table 3 for each sex-stage 



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