Do opercular flaps of male longear sunfish (lepomis megalotis) serve as sexual ornaments during female mate choice?

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-231

  Goddard, K ^a   Mathis, A ^a  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrarchidae; Female choice; Lepomis spp.; Sexual ornamentation; Sunfish

Indexed keywords

LONGEAR SUNFISH; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL ORNAMENT;

CENTRARCHIDAE; LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS MEGALOTIS; PISCES;

EID: 0030690449     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1997.9522882     Document Type: Article

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