Male courtship sounds in a teleost with alternative reproductive tactics, the grass goby, Zosterisessor ophiocephalus

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 231-236

  Malavasi, Stefano ^a   Torricelli, Patrizia ^a   Lugli, Marco ^b   Pranovi, Fabio ^a   Mainardi, Danilo ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic behaviour; Amplitude; Dominant frequency; Sound structure

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BODY SIZE; COURTSHIP; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TELEOST;

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; CHANNA; GOBIIDAE; HALOPHILA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA; ZOSTERISESSOR OPHIOCEPHALUS;

EID: 0038684425     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023923403180     Document Type: Article

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