Possible species specific courtship sounds by two sympatric cichlid fishes in Lake Malawi, Africa

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 443-452

  Lobel, Phillip S ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioacoustics; Cichlidae; Copadichromis; Courtship call; Fish mating; Fish sounds; Hydrophone; Lethrinops; Tramitichromis; Underwater acoustics

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; FISH; SYMPATRY; VOCALIZATION;

AFRICA, LAKE MALAWI;

COPADICHROMIS CONOPHORUS; TRAMITICHROMIS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 0031881096     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007467818465     Document Type: Article

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