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The ichthyology collection at the Natural History Museum of El Salvador (MUHNES): Species checklist and new country records
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- 1. UDP Ciencias Neotropicales, Pasaje Francisco Campos #166, Colonia Escalón, San Salvador. & Fundación Naturaleza El Salvador, Pasaje Francisco Campos #166, Colonia Escalón, San Salvador. & School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Queensland, 4811, Australia.
- 2. UDP Ciencias Neotropicales, Pasaje Francisco Campos #166, Colonia Escalón, San Salvador. & Fundación Naturaleza El Salvador, Pasaje Francisco Campos #166, Colonia Escalón, San Salvador. & Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Costa Rica
- 3. Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvador, Barrio San Jacinto, final calle Los Viveros, colonia Nicaragua, San Salvador. E-mail: rcalvarado@cultura.gob.sv; raquel9.al@gmail.com (RAL)
- 4. UDP Ciencias Neotropicales, Pasaje Francisco Campos #166, Colonia Escalón, San Salvador. & Fundación Naturaleza El Salvador, Pasaje Francisco Campos #166, Colonia Escalón, San Salvador.
- 5. Museo de Zoología y Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica. 11501-2060, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica. E-mail: arturo.angs@gmail.com (AA) & UNESP, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Laboratório de Ictiologia, Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica. Rua Cristóvão Colombo, 2265, CEP 15054-000, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
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González-Murcia, Saúl, Álvarez-Calderón, Francisco Samuel, Alvarado-Larios, Raquel, Marín-Martínez, Cindy Marlene, Angulo, Arturo (2019): The ichthyology collection at the Natural History Museum of El Salvador (MUHNES): Species checklist and new country records. Zootaxa 4559 (2): 281-313, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.2.4
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