Habitat utilization and depth distribution of small cryptobenthic fishes (Blenniidae, Gobiesocidae, Gobiidae, Tripterygiidae) in Ibiza (western Mediterranean Sea)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 207-214

  Patzner, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Baleares; Cryptic species; Habitat types

Indexed keywords

FISH; HABITAT USE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

APLETODON INCOGNITUS; CHROMOGOBIUS ZEBRATUS; CORCYROGOBIUS LIECHTENSTEINI; DIDOGOBIUS SPLECHTNAI; GAMMOGOBIUS STEINITZI; GOUANIA WILDENOWI; LEPADOGASTER CANDOLLEI; LEPADOGASTER LEPADOGASTER; LIPOPHRYS NIGRICEPS; MILLERIGOBIUS MACROCEPHALUS; PARABLENNIUS ZVONIMIRI; THOROGOBIUS EPHIPPIATUS; THOROGOBIUS MACROLEPIS; TRIPTERYGION MELANURUS; ZEBRUS ZEBRUS;

EID: 0033060834     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007535808710     Document Type: Article

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