An updated checklist of fishes of the Caspian Sea basin of Iran with a note on their zoogeography

Iranian Journal of Ichthyology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 152-184

  Esmaeili, Hamid Reza ^a   Coad, Brian W ^b   Mehraban, Hamid Reza ^a   Masoudi, Mojtaba ^a   Khaefi, Roozbehan ^a   Abbasi, Keyvan ^c   Mostafavi, Hossein ^d,e   Vatandoust, Saber ^f  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^c Aquatic Ecology Department of the Inland Water Aquaculture Research Center   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^f ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Ecoregion; Fish diversity; Ichthyogeography; Iran; Paratethys; Ponto Caspian region

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919949919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23830964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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