Gill Dimensions as a Function of Fish Size
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 26 (1), 165-170
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f69-018
Abstract
The relationship between total gill area and body weight can be expressed as Y + aWb where "b" varies from about 0.8 to 0.9 for different species. The area for a 1-g fish ("a") ranges 22-fold for published data on different species. Expressed by the same general equation, the number of secondary lamellae per millimeter of filament ranges 4-fold for different species and decreases with increasing fish weight within each species by a power of about −0.1.Keywords
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- COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE GILL AREA OF MARINE FISHESThe Biological Bulletin, 1954