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Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families
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- 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología/Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
- 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd #13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel.t.betts@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6018-8995
- 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE/UGETEP),
- 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar.ecologica@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8148-3195
- 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P.O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe@zamorano.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7566-0415
- 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias@fieldmuseum.org; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4215-0384 cmcmahan@fieldmuseum.org; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2113-8554
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Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D., Matamoros, Wilfredo A. (2023): Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families. Zootaxa 5376 (1): 1-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, URL: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5376.1.1/52351
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