Habitat partitioning, habits and convergence among coastal nektonic fish species from the São Sebastião Channel, southeastern Brazil

Neotropical Ichthyology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 299-310

  Gibran, Fernando Zaniolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Body form; Ecomorphology; Fins position; Fins shape; Pelagic fishes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955479574     PISSN: 16796225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252010000200008     Document Type: Article

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