Are the Indonesian and western Indian Ocean coelacanths conspecific: A prediction

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 453-456

  Springer, Victor G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Effects of siltation; Fish; Geological history; India; Latimeria; River flow

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; FISH; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA;

LATIMERIA CHALUMNAE;

EID: 0032979390     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007524929593     Document Type: Article

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