Short-distance spawning migration of tropical freshwater eels

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 104-108

  Aoyama, Jun ^a   Wouthuyzen, Sam ^b   Miller, Michael J ^a   Inagaki, Tadashi ^a   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EEL; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MIGRATION; SPAWNING;

ANGUILLIDAE; ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 12244268250     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543500     Document Type: Article

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