Ecomorphological individual variation in a population of Haplochromis nyererei from the Tanzanian part of Lake Victoria

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-83

  Fermon, Y ^a   Cibert, C ^b  

^a Appliquee Mus Natl d'Hist N   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Cichlidae; Ecomorphology; Haplochromis nyererei; Lake Victoria; Phenotypic plasticity; Rocky shores

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; LAKE; MORPHOLOGY; TANZANIA;

DIET; DOMINANCE RANK; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION;

TANZANIA, LAKE VICTORIA;

HAPLOCHROMIS NYEREREI;

EID: 0032126567     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfbi.1998.0674     Document Type: Article

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