Crypsis in a heterogeneous environment:)Relationships between changeable polymorphic colour patterns and behaviour in a galaxiid fish

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 793-799

  Magellan, Kit ^a   Swartz, Ernst R ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Background pattern matching; Colour pattern polymorphism; Disruptive colouration; Galaxias'nebula'; Habitat complexity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GALAXIAS; GALAXIIDAE;

EID: 84874958176     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12086     Document Type: Article

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