Diet selectivity of introduced flathead catfish in coastal rivers

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 901-909

  Pine III, William E ^a,b   Kwak, Thomas J ^a   Waters, D Scott ^a,c   Rice, James A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ASTACOIDEA; ICTALURIDAE; PYLODICTIS OLIVARIS;

EID: 21744454017     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T04-166.1     Document Type: Article

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