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Length-weight relationship of fishes caught in the Itaipu Reservoir, Paraná, Brazil
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BENEDITO-CECILIO, E.; AGOSTINHO, A.A.; CARNELÓS-MACHADO VELHO, R.C.
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BENEDITO-CECILIO, Evanilde; AGOSTINHO, Angelo Antonio; CARNELÓS-MACHADO VELHO, R.C. Length-weight relationship of fishes caught in the Itaipu Reservoir, Paraná, Brazil. Naga. The Iclarm Quarterly, Metro Manila, v.20, no.3-4, p.57-61, 1997. Parameters and related statistics of the length-weight relationship of the form W=aLb are presented for 72 species of fish caught in the area of the Itaipu Reservoir in Paraná, Brazil. The b values varied between 2.34 and 3.35, with the mean b=2.986 (s.d.=0.230) not significantly different from 3.0 (df=7, p=0.05).