The gobioid fishes of North Carolina (Pisces: Gobioidei)

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 287-323

  Ross, Steve W ^a   Rhode, Fred C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; SALINITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

AMBLYOPSIS; AWAOUS; AWAOUS BANANA; BATHYGOBIUS; BATHYGOBIUS SOPORATOR; BOLLMANNIA; CORYPHOPTERUS GLAUCOFRAENUM; CORYPHOPTERUS PUNCTIPECTOPHORUS; CTENOGOBIUS; CTENOGOBIUS SAEPEPALLENS; DORMITATOR MACULATUS; ELEOTRIDAE; ELEOTRIS; ELEOTRIS SMARAGDUS; EVERMANNICHTHYS METZELAARI; EVORTHODUS; EVORTHODUS LYRICUS; GNATHOLEPIS THOMPSONI; GOBIIDAE; GOBIOIDEI; GOBIOIDES; GOBIONELLUS; GOBIONELLUS OCEANICUS; GOBIOSOMA; GOBIOSOMA BOSC; GOBIOSOMA GINSBURGI; GOBIOSOMA XANTHIPRORA; LYTHRYPNUS; LYTHRYPNUS PHORELLUS; LYTHRYPNUS SPILUS; MICRODESMIDAE; MICRODESMUS LONGIPINNIS; MICROGOBIUS; MICROGOBIUS CARRI; MICROGOBIUS THALASSINUS; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PISCES; PRIOLEPIS HIPOLITI; PTERELEOTRIDAE; PTERELEOTRIS; TURDUS; VERTEBRATA;

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