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Diet of the European eel Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) in two transitional waters of Southwestern Mediterranean

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Derbal, Farid, Hamdi, Sandra, Rouag-Laouira, Lydia, Chaoui, Lamya, Kara, Mohamed Hichem (2022): Diet of the European eel Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) in two transitional waters of Southwestern Mediterranean. Cybium 46 (1): 3-11, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2022-461-001, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2022-461-001

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