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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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