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• Length at first maturity Area Method Postel (1954)* 0 cm (♀) Atlantic 2 cm (♂)
• Dardignac (1962)* 0 cm (♀) Atlantic (Morocco) 0 cm (♂) Rey et al. (1984) 0 cm (♀) Gibraltar (Spain) Macroscopic observations of gonads 0 cm (♂)
• Ateş et al. (2008) 9 cm (Σ) Black Sea and Marmara Sea (Turkey) Empirical relationship This study 9 cm (♀) Gallipoli Peninsula and Dardanelles Empirical relationship 8 cm (♂)
• Σ: all samples; ♀: females; ♂: males; *from Rey et al. (1984).
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