A ‘living fossil’ eel (Anguilliformes: Protanguillidae, fam. nov.) from an undersea cave in Palau

We report the discovery of an enigmatic, small eel-like fish from a 35 m-deep fringing-reef cave in the western Pacific Ocean Republic of Palau that exhibits an unusual suite of morphological characters. Many of these uniquely characterize the Recent members of the 19 families comprising the elopomo...

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Autores principales: Johnson, G. David, Ida, Hitoshi, Sakaue, Jiro, Sado, Tetsuya, Asahida, Takashi, Miya, Masaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2012
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Research Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21849321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1289

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21849321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1289

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