Reproductive timing of fishes in a tropical intermittent stream

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-66

  Alkins Koo, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Callichthyidae; Characidae; Fecundity; Freshwater fishes; Gasteropelecidae; Neotropics; Poeciliidae; Seasonality; Spawning patterns; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPAWNING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ASTYANAX BIMACULATUS; CORYDORAS AENEUS; CORYNOPOMA RUSEI; GASTEROPELECUS STERNICLA; HEMIGRAMMUS UNILINEATUS; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0033960536     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007566609881     Document Type: Article

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