Authors : L. Mezedjri and A. Tahar
Abstract: During the year 2003, a compared biometric study is carried out on a pelagic fish of the family of Engraulidea the European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus. The comparison is made between two samples; the first comes from the gulf of Skikda (Algerian East coasts) and the second from the Gulf of Lions (South-western coasts of France). This study shows the existence of a sexual dimorphism and this for all two sites. Indeed, on a whole of 35 measured variables, the analysis of the univariate variance with two criteria of classification (ANOVA), highlights the existence of a sexual dimorphism for eight variables (four variables are cephalic measurements; three are body measurements and one meristic variable). The comparison between the two sites by means of statistical tests multivariate MANOVA, leads to the existence of differences very highly significant between the two sites (Algerian East coasts and South-western coasts of France).
L. Mezedjri and A. Tahar , 2007. Morphological Variability, Between Two Sites in Mediterranean Population of the European Anchovy: (Engraulis encrasicolus). Journal of Fisheries International, 2: 65-68.