Are morphological characters distinctive enough to discriminate between two species of freshwater eels, Anguilla celebesensis and A. interioris?

Ichthyological Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-161

  Aoyama, Jun ^a   Watanabe, Shun ^a   Ishikawa, Satoshi ^a   Nishida, Mutsumi ^a,b   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anguilla; Morphology; mtDNA; New Guinea; Species identification

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLA CELEBESENSIS; ANGUILLA INTERIORIS; ANGUILLIDAE; ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 0034337108     PISSN: 13418998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02684236     Document Type: Article

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