Air breathing of aquatic burrow-dwelling eel goby, Odontamblyopus lacepedii (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1085-1092

  Gonzales, Tomas T ^a,b   Katoh, Masaya ^c   Ishimatsu, Atsushi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SOUTHEAST ASIAN FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (Philippines)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air breathing fish; Aquatic hypoxia; Gobiidae; Intertidal mudflat

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

AIR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; EXHALATION; GAS; GILL; INHALATION; JAPAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY;

AIR; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXHALATION; GASES; GILLS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INHALATION; JAPAN; KINETICS; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; SEAWATER;

GOBIIDAE; GOBIOIDES; ODONTAMBLYOPUS; PERIOPHTHALMUS; PISCES;

EID: 33645762751     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02092     Document Type: Article

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