TY  - JOUR
T1  - Multivariate Discrimination among Three <I>Trachurus</I> Species from Turkey
AU - Belduz, Ali Osman AU - Karaoglu, Hakan 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SP  - 121
EP  - 127
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2011.121.127
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2011.121.127
KW  - multivariate analysis
KW  -carangidae
KW  -Trachurus species
KW  -morphology
KW  -Turkey
AB  - <I>Trachurus mediterraneus</I> (Steindachner, 1868), <I>T. trachurus</I> (Linnaeus, 1758) and<I> T. picturatus</I> (Bowdich, 1825) are three closely related, morphologically similar horse mackerel species. Here multivariate analyses are used to study interspecific morphometric and meristic variation for these three species. The statistical analysis confirmed that three species were well differentiated. In particular, discriminant analysis revealed that a strong discriminating power of the morphometric variables and three <I>Trachurus</I> species was clearly distinguished due to measurements of preanal length, head length, eye diameter, length of lateral line and numbers of scale in lateral line.
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