Modifications of the digestive tract for holding air in loricariid and scoloplacid catfishes

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 1998, Pages 663-675

  Armbruster, Jonathan W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYPTOPERICHTHYS; HEMIANCISTRUS ANNECTENS; HEMIANCISTRUS MARACAIBOENSIS; HYPOSTOMUS PANAMENSIS; LIPOSARCUS; LITHOXUS; OTOCINCLUS; POGONOPOMA; POGONOPOMOIDES; PSEUDORINELEPIS; PTERYGOPLICHTHYS; RHINELEPIS; SCOLOPLAX;

EID: 0031880073     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447796     Document Type: Article

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