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Brown ghost electric fishes of the Apteronotus leptorhynchus species-group (Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes); monophyly, major clades, and revision

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Santana, Carlos David De, Vari, Richard P. (2013): Brown ghost electric fishes of the Apteronotus leptorhynchus species-group (Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes); monophyly, major clades, and revision. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168 (3): 564-596, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12022, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12022

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