Population ecology of Trichomycterus itacarambiensis, a cave catfish from eastern Brazil (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 357-369

  Trajano, Eleonora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Albinism; Fish movements; Population size; Troglobitic fish

Indexed keywords

CAVE CATFISH; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; TROGLOBITIC FISH;

BRAZIL, MINAS GERAIS STATE, OLHOS D'AGUA CAVE;

APHREDODEROIDEI; PIMELODELLA; PIMELODELLA KRONEI; PIMELODIDAE; PISCES; SILURIFORMES; TRICHOMYCTERIDAE; TRICHOMYCTERUS; TRICHOMYCTERUS ITACARAMBIENSIS;

EID: 0030725528     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007366119261     Document Type: Article

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