Mudskippers: Front runners in the modern invasion of land

The Biology of Gobies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 609-638

  Ishimatsu, Atsushi ^a   Gonzales, Tomas T ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

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