Light guides of the escal light organs in some deep-sea anglerfishes (Pisces; Ceratioidei)

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-186

  Munk, Ole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FISH; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PIGMENTATION; SENSE ORGAN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPHINCTER;

ANIMALIA; CENTROPHRYNIDAE; CERATIOIDEI; LINOPHRYNE CORONATA; LOPHIIFORMES; ONEIRODES ESCHRICHTII; PHYLLORHINICHTHYS MICRACTIS; PISCES;

EID: 0031815881     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.1998.tb01156.x     Document Type: Article

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