Ages, lengths, and sexes of White Grunt.

Description

Ages, lengths, and sexes of White Grunt (Haemulon plumierii) collected from the central coast of Brazil

Format

A data frame with 465 observations on the following 3 variables.

• age: Age (from otoliths to the nearest 0.1 years)
• tl: Total length (mm)
• sex: Sex (male and female)

Topic(s)

• Growth
• von Bertalanffy

Source

From (approximately) Figure 6 of Araujo, J.N. and A.S. Martins. 2007. Age, growth and mortality of white grunt (Haemulon plumierii) from the central coast of Brazil. Scientia Marina 71:793-800.

Examples

data(WhiteGrunt2)
str(WhiteGrunt2)
head(WhiteGrunt2)
op <- par(mfrow=c(1,2),pch=19)
plot(tl~age,data=WhiteGrunt2,subset=sex=="female",main="Female")
plot(tl~age,data=WhiteGrunt2,subset=sex=="male",main="Male")
par(op)