Interactions of fishes with particular reference to coelacanths in the canyons at Sodwana Bay and the St Lucia Marine Protected Area of South Africa

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 102, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 461-465

  Heemstra, Phillip C ^a   Fricke, Hans ^b   Hissmann, Karen ^b   Schauer, Jürgen ^b   Smale, Malcolm ^c   Sink, Kerry ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c PORT ELIZABETH MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMERSAL FISH; FAUNISTICS; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBMARINE CANYON;

AFRICA; COMOROS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; KWAZULU-NATAL; SODWANA BAY; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; ST. LUCIA MARINE PROTECTED AREA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANTHOZOA; COELACANTHIDAE; LATIMERIA CHALUMNAE; PISCES;

EID: 33947127671     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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