The fishes of Ascension Island, central Atlantic Ocean - New records and an annotated checklist

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 760, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 783-798

  Wirtz, Peter ^a   Bingeman, Jane ^b   Bingeman, John ^b   Fricke, Ronald ^b,c   Hook, Timothy J ^b   Young, Jimmy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart ^*  (Guyana)

^c STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

Author keywords

amphi Atlantic; island biology; zoogeography

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NEW RECORD; SHARK; SPECIES INVENTORY; ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION;

ASCENSION ISLAND;

PISCES;

EID: 84911446924     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315414001301     Document Type: Article

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