The Hypogean fishes of China

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 211-278

  Romero, Aldemaro ^a   Zhao, Yahui ^b   Chen, Xiaoyong ^c  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Convergent evolution; Geographical distribution; Hypogean fishes; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FISH; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PIGMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

AMBLYOPSIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 70449520354     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-009-9441-3     Document Type: Article

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