A review of lanternfishes (Families: Myctophidae and Neoscopelidae) and their distributions around Taiwan and the Tungsha Islands with notes on seventeen new records

Zoological Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 103-126

  Wang, John Ta Ming ^a   Chen, Che Tsung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Deep sea fishes; Fish fauna; Myctophidae; Neoscopelidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035315614     PISSN: 10215506     EISSN: 1810522X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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