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Viviparous Halfbeaks of the Family Zenarchopteridae
Jan Huylebrouck
AMAZONAS Magazine, Volume 3, Number 1, January/February 2014, pp 20-28

Livebearing freshwater halfbeaks grace the cover of AMAZONAS Magazine for January/February 2014. Image: Hans-Georg Evers.

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Related Terms:

• Term: systematics
• Term: ontogeny
• Term: dorsal
• Term: rays