New species of Rhynchodoras from the Río Orinoco, Venezuela, with comments on the genus (Siluriformes: Doradidae)

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 2007, Pages 672-684

  Birindelli, José L O ^a   Sabaj, Mark H ^b   Taphorn, Donald C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Universidad Nacional Experimental de Los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; TELEOST;

ORINOCO BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

DORADIDAE; ORINOCODORAS; RHINODORAS; SILURIFORMES;

EID: 34548844741     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2007)2007[672:NSORFT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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