Morphometric and allozyme variation in the black-chinned tilapia sarotherodon melanotheron (perciformes, cichlidae), with a revision of the subspecies complex

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1849-1863

  Falk, T M ^a   Teugels, G G ^b   Abban, E K ^c   Villwock, W ^a   Renwrantz, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Allozymes; Biogeography; Haemoglobins; Morphometry; Natural Populations; Sarotherodon Melanotheron; Systematics

Indexed keywords

CICHLIDAE; PERCIFORMES; SAROTHERODON MELANOTHERON; TILAPIA;

EID: 0033863942     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930050122174     Document Type: Article

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