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Ages and total lengths of Spotted Sucker (Minytrema melanops) collected from the Apalachicola River, Florida.

Format

A data frame with 96 observations on the following 2 variables.

tl

Total length (mm).

age

Age (from scales).

Source

From Box 5.4 in Iseley, J.J. and T.B. Grabowski. 2007. Age and Growth in Guy, C.S. and M.L. Brown, editors. Analysis and Interpretation of Freshwater Fisheries Data. American Fisheries Society. Likely originally from Grabowski, T.B., S.P. Young, J.J. Isely, and P.C. Ely. Age, growth, and reproductive biology of three catostomids from the Apalachicola River, Florida. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 3:223-237. CSV file

Topic(s)

  • Growth

  • von Bertalanffy

Examples

data(SpottedSucker1)
str(SpottedSucker1)
#> 'data.frame':	95 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ tl : int  388 418 438 428 539 432 444 421 438 419 ...
#>  $ age: int  4 4 4 5 10 4 7 4 4 4 ...
head(SpottedSucker1)
#>    tl age
#> 1 388   4
#> 2 418   4
#> 3 438   4
#> 4 428   5
#> 5 539  10
#> 6 432   4
plot(tl~age,data=SpottedSucker1)