Electric Signal Design and Habitat Preferences in a Species Rich Assemblage of Gymnotiform Fishes from the Upper Amazon Basin

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 70, Issue 4 PART 2, 1998, Pages

  Crampton, William G R ^a  

^a Projeto Mamirauá ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Blackwater; Electric fish; EOD; Gymnotiform; V rzea; Whitewater

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EID: 0347600790     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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