Reproductive studies on the carpet clam Paphia textile (Paratapes textilis) (Gmelin 1791) (Family: Veneridae): a guide of aquaculture management along the Egyptian coasts of the Red Sea and Suez Canal

Table 9 Results of Pearson correlation analysis between squared root transformed data of the Paphia textile maturity stages I, II, IV, and V, and raw data from Stage III and the measured environmental parameters in the studied locations and throughout the sampling period

Environmental Parameter	Stage I		Stage II		Stage III		Stage IV		Stage V
Environmental Parameter	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
Temperature	-0.690	0.003	-0.721	0.002	0.276	0.300	0.580	0.018	0.578	0.019
pH	-0.385	0.141	0.290	0.276	0.098	0.719	-0.351	0.183	0.137	0.613
Salinity	0.572	0.021	0.866	< 0.0001	-0.251	0.348	-0.743	0.001	-0.551	0.027
DO	0.680	0.004	0.316	0.233	-0.240	0.370	-0.187	0.488	-0.464	0.070
Chlorophyll a	-0.799	< 0.0001	-0.457	0.075	-0.395	0.130	0.447	0.083	0.815	< 0.0001

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