First record of the whitetip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus in the west coast of México (Revillagigedo Archipelago)

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 44-45, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 687-688

  Ochoa López, Edgardo ^c   Villavicencio Garayzar, Carlos ^a   Ruiz Gaytán, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^c NONE

Author keywords

New record; Shark; Triaenodon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345909655     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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