Vieira, R.P., Bentes, L., Monteiro, P., Ribeiro, J., Erzini, K. and Gonçalves J.M.S., (2013). Weight-length relationships for five fish species from a temperate coastal lagoon of southern Europe. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 29: 292-293. doi: 10.1111/jai.12041.

The weight-length relationships (WLR) were estimated for five fish species of Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in southern Portugal. WLRs for Gobius couchi, Pomatoschistus microps and Parablennius pilicornis were determined for the first time ever and for Gobius cruentatus for the first time for the southern European Atlantic coast. The parameters of the length-weight relationships (W = aTLb) were estimated by linear regression after logarithmic transformation of the data (log W = log a + b log TL), where W is weight and TL total length, a the intercept, and b the regression slope. The degree of association between the W and TL is given by the coefficient of determination, r2.