Overlapping territory of the benthophagous cichlid fish, Lobochilotes labiatus, in Lake Tanganyika

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-20

  Kohda, Masanori ^a   Tanida, Kazumi ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benthophagous; Body size; Feeding behaviour; Feeding territory; Foraging site partitioning

Indexed keywords

BENTHOPHAGY; BODY SIZE; FORAGING SITE PARTITIONING; TERRITORY;

AFRICA, (EAST), LAKE TANGANYIKA;

CICHLIDAE; LOBOCHILOTES LABIATUS;

EID: 0029669012     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00000624     Document Type: Article

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