Biodiversity of arctic marine fishes: Taxonomy and zoogeography

Marine Biodiversity

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-140

  Mecklenburg, Catherine W ^a   Møller, Peter Rask ^b   Steinke, Dirk ^c  

^a California Academy of Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic marine fishes; Barcoding; Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLATFISH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LAND BRIDGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; MUSEUM; NEW SPECIES; PERCIFORM; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BERING SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AMMODYTES; AMMODYTES PERSONATUS; ARTEDIELLUS UNCINATUS; COTTOIDEI; EUMESOGRAMMUS PRAECISUS; GYMNELUS; GYMNELUS HEMIFASCIATUS; HIPPOGLOSSOIDES ROBUSTUS; ICELUS; ICELUS SPATULA; LEPTOCLINUS MACULATUS; LIPARIS (SCORPAENIFORM); LIPARIS GIBBUS; MYOXOCEPHALUS VERRUCOSUS; OSMERUS DENTEX; PISCES; ZOARCOIDEI;

EID: 79952627536     PISSN: 18671616     EISSN: 18671624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-010-0070-z     Document Type: Review

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