Spectacular morphological novelty in a miniature cyprinid fish, Danionella dracula n. sp.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1665, 2009, Pages 2179-2186

  Britz, Ralf ^a   Conway, Kevin W ^b   Rüber, Lukas ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cypriniformes; Danionella; Developmental truncation; Evolutionary novelty; Jaw teeth; Miniaturization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CYPRINID; DENTITION; EOCENE; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PEDOMORPHOSIS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINIFORMES; DANIONELLA DRACULA; FEMALE; JAW; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ODONTOID PROCESS; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TELEOST; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; UPPER EOCENE;

CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; CYPRINOIDEA; DANIO RERIO; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 66749152716     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0141     Document Type: Article

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