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The almost invisible league: crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators

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Carvalho, Lucélia Nobre, Zuanon, Jansen, Sazima, Ivan (2006): The almost invisible league: crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators. Neotropical Ichthyology 4 (2): 219-224, DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252006000200008, URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252006000200008&lng=en&tlng=en

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