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Unravelling the taxonomy of an interstitial fish radiation: Three new species of Gouania (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea and redescriptions of G. willdenowi and G. pigra

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  • 1. Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria & Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2. Natural History Museum Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
  • 3. Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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Wagner, Maximilian, Kovac, Marcelo, Koblmüller, Stephan (2021): Unravelling the taxonomy of an interstitial fish radiation: Three new species of Gouania (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea and redescriptions of G. willdenowi and G. pigra. Journal of Fish Biology 98 (1): 64-88, DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14558, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14558

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