Sparisoma choati, a new species of Parrotfish (Labridae: Scarinae) from the tropical eastern Atlantic

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3152, 2012, Pages 61-67

  Rocha, Luiz A ^a   Brito, Alberto ^b   Robertson, D Ross ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Perciformes; Taxonomy; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863853311     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3152.1.3     Document Type: Article

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