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    Larval size-distributions of Ariosoma balearicum cryptic species during the March–April season in the Sargasso Sea Subtropical Convergence Zone

    Leptocephali of the shallow-water congrid eel Ariosoma balearicum are abundant during February–April in the Sargasso Sea, and larval and adult meristic data indicates this species includes several regional subpop...

    Michael J. Miller, Lasse Marohn, Klaus Wysujack… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2019)

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    Environmental factors affecting the onset of spawning migrations of Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) in Mikawa Bay Japan

    The timing of downstream migrations of anguillid silver eels in relation to environmental factors in rivers has been examined using various types of data. Less is known about the factors that affect when silve...

    Ryusuke Sudo, Akihiro Okamura, Nobuto Fukuda… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2017)

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    Declines in catches of Japanese eels in rivers and lakes across Japan: Have river and lake modifications reduced fishery catches?

    Catches and recruitment of the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, have declined for unknown reasons in recent decades, so examination of possible factors contributing to the declines is needed for resource manageme...

    Hikaru Itakura, Takashi Kitagawa, Michael J. Miller… in Landscape and Ecological Engineering (2015)

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    Freshwater habitat use by a moray eel species, Gymnothorax polyuranodon, in Fiji shown by otolith microchemistry

    Freshwater eels of the Anguillidae are diadromous because they migrate between ocean and freshwater environments, but other anguilliform fishes are generally considered to be strictly marine species. A few mar...

    Katsumi Tsukamoto, Shun Watanabe, Mari Kuroki… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2014)

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    Do Japanese eels recruit into the Japan Sea coast?: A case study in the Hayase River system, Fukui Japan

    The Japanese coastlines along the Sea of Japan (Japan Sea) have been thought to be one of the margins of the distribution range of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica, and there is evidence that eels had naturally...

    Kenzo Kaifu, Hideaki Maeda, Kazuki Yokouchi… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2014)

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    Analysis of vertebral counts of the tropical anguillids, Anguilla megastoma, A. obscura, and A. reinhardtii, in the western South Pacific in relation to their possible population structure and phylogeny

    The population structures of three tropical eel species, Anguilla megastoma, A. obscura, and A. reinhardtii, collected from several localities of each species range in the western South Pacific Ocean were evaluat...

    Shun Watanabe, Michael J. Miller, Jun Aoyama… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2011)

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    Inshore migration and otolith microstructure/microchemistry of anguillid glass eels recruited to Iceland

    The timing of catches of anguillid glass eels and their otolith microstructure and microchemistry were studied in southwest Iceland, where the European eel, Anguilla anguilla and American eel, A. rostrata have be...

    Mari Kuroki, Momoko Kawai, Bjarni Jónsson, Jun Aoyama… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2008)

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    Morphology and microchemistry of abnormal otoliths in the ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis

    The sagittal otolith morphology and microchemistry of reared juvenile ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis, were examined to describe the occurrence and microchemical characteristics of the abnormal otoliths in this speci...

    Tao Ma, Mari Kuroki, Michael J. Miller, Rikizo Ishida… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2008)

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    Distribution of leptocephali of the freshwater eels, genus Anguilla, in the waters off west Sumatra in the Indian Ocean

    A research cruise was conducted in the eastern Indian Ocean off west Sumatra, Indonesia, in June 2003 to learn about the spawning and larval ecology of the tropical freshwater eels of the genus Anguilla in the re...

    Jun Aoyama, Sam Wouthuyzen, Michael J. Miller… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2007)

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    Ecological Aspects of the Downstream Migration of Introduced European Eels in the Uono River, Japan

    We examined the species composition, timing of downstream migration, and biological characteristics of eels using catches at three commercial weirs from 1996 to 1998 in the Uono River, Niigata Prefecture, Japa...

    Takeshi Miyai, Jun Aoyama, Seji Sasai, Jun G. Inoue… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2004)

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    Seamounts, New Moon and eel Spawning: The Search for the Spawning Site of the Japanese eel

    After analyzing all the collection data for larvae of the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, in the western North Pacific, we found that the spawning site of this species appears to be near three seamounts in the W...

    Katsumi Tsukamoto, Tsuguo Otake, Noritaka Mochioka… in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2003)

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    The Distribution and Ecology of Ariosoma Balearicum (Congridae) Leptocephali in the Western North Atlantic

    A total of 4589 leptocephali of the congrid eel, Ariosoma balearicum, were examined from 17 cruises in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Myomere counts made on 915 of these indicated there were two ranges of numb...

    Michael J. Miller in Environmental Biology of Fishes (2002)

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    Spawning ofConger oceanicus andConger triporiceps (Congridae) in the Sargasso Sea and subsequent distribution of leptocephali

    Distribution of leptocephali ofConger in the Western North Atlantic Ocean was studied using specimens from our collections, specimens from other collections, and various existing collection records. The presence ...

    James D. McCleave, Michael J. Miller in Environmental Biology of Fishes (1994)