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Protomelas krampus, a new paedophagous cichlid from Lake Malawi (Teleostei, Cichlidae)

  • 1. Ichthyology, Section Vertebrates, Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuursesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium. & BioArch, Department of Archaeology, University of York, England, United Kingdom.
  • 2. Ichthyology, Section Vertebrates, Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuursesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium. & Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, Leuven University (KU Leuven), Charles Deberiotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

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Dierickx, Katrien, Snoeks, Jos (2020): Protomelas krampus, a new paedophagous cichlid from Lake Malawi (Teleostei, Cichlidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 672 (672): 1-18, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.672

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