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The Reproductive Maturity of the Common Eel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. T. Cunningham
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In the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, there are two specimens of the common eel, in which the ovaries are much enlarged, greatly distending the abdomen, and evidently very nearly ripe. Both those specimens were presented by Mr. Geo. Buckeridge, a salesman in Billingsgate Market, who deals largely in eels. The following are certain particulars concerning the specimens:—

(1) Length 15 in., weight 4½ oz. Presented Jan. 4, 1894.

(2) Length 19 in., girth round the abdomen 5½in., weight 10¼ oz. Presented Sept. 25, 1895.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1896 , pp. 87 - 88
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1896

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