Gill raker morphology and feeding ecology of two sympatric morphs of European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 291-300

  Amundsen, Per Arne ^a   Bøhn, Thomas ^a   Våga, Gry H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; SALMONID; SYMPATRY;

EURASIA; PASVIK RIVER;

COREGONUS; COREGONUS LAVARETUS; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542649945     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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