Comparative study about diet, feeding habits and trophic morphology of two sympatric species of small fishes in association with aquatic macrophytes;Estudo comparativo da dieta, hábitos alimentares e morfologia trófica de duas espécies simpátricas, de peixes de pequeno porte, associados à macrófitas aquáticas

Acta Scientiarum - Biological Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-364

  Hahn, Norma Segatti ^a   Loureiro Crippa, Valdirene Esgarbosa ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aquatic macrophytes; Feeding; Fishes; Floodplain; Lagoons; Trophic segregation

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; GILL; LAGOON; MACROPHYTE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; STOMACH; SYMPATRY; TOOTH;

ALGAE; APHYOCHARACINAE; APHYOCHARAX; CHEIRODONTINAE; PISCES;

EID: 34547897708     PISSN: 16799283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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