The origins of the Nile perch in Lake Victoria

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 780-787

  Pringle, Robert M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African cichlids; Exotic species introductions; Extinction; Haplochromis; Invasive species

Indexed keywords

CICHLIDAE; HAPLOCHROMIS; LATES NILOTICUS;

EID: 24144480055     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0780:TOOTNP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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