Deep-ocean origin of the freshwater eels
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- 6 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Biology Letters
- Vol. 6 (3), 363-366
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0989
Abstract
Of more than 800 species of eels of the order Anguilliformes, only freshwater eels (genus Anguilla with 16 species plus three subspecies) spend most of their lives in freshwater during their catadr...Keywords
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