Abstract
Beak length analysis was undertaken for the arrov, squidNototodarus sloanii in the New Zealand sector of the Southern Ocean between Stewart Island and the Auckland Islands.N. sloanii has a restricted range and is endemic to the waters around New Zealand and its associated southern islands, where it supports a fishery and is preyed upon by a number of fishes, marine mammals and birds. Lower rostral length (LRL) and upper rostral length (URL) were analysed to see how these beak measurements related to both mantle length (ML) and wet weight (W). Both lower and upper rostral lengths could be used as useful predictors of ML and W inN. sloanii, as relationships had limited scatter and high correlation coefficients. The relationships between LRL and ML, and URL and ML were only linear after regressing log-transformed values of beak length against ML. However, the relationships between LRL and W, and URL and W were linear without transforming either thex ory values. These results are different from previously published beak length analyses ofNototodarus in New Zealand waters.
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Jackson, G.D., McKinnon, J.F. Beak length analysis of arrow squidNototodarus sloanii (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) in southern New Zealand waters. Polar Biol 16, 227–230 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02329211
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