Habitat selection and ecology of two speleophilic gobiid fishes (Pisces: Gobiidae) from the western Mediterranean Sea

Marine Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-62

  Herler, Jürgen ^a   Patzner, Robert A ^b   Ahnelt, Harald ^a   Hilgers, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Balearic Islands; Corcyrogobius liechtensteini; Cryptobenthic fish; Didogobius splechtnai; Submarine caves

Indexed keywords

FISH; HABITAT SELECTION; MICROHABITAT; SUBMARINE CAVE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CORCYROGOBIUS LIECHTENSTEINI; DIDOGOBIUS SPLECHTNAI;

EID: 0032718916     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0485.1999.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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