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Color changing and behavioral context in the Amazonian Dwarf Cichlid Apistogramma hippolytae (Perciformes)

  • 1. Laboratório de Ecologia Comportamental e de Interações (LECI), Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. Caixa Postal 593, 38400-902 Uberlândia, MG, Brazil. raonirosa@yahoo.com.br (RRR), delclaro@ufu.br (KDC)
  • 2. Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Humanas e Sociais (ICNHS), Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), Campus de Sinop. Av. Alexandre Ferronato, 1200, Setor Industrial, 78550-000 Sinop, MT, Brazil. carvalholh@yahoo.com.br & Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biologia Aquática (CPBA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) and Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Caixa Postal 478, 69011-970 Manaus, AM, Brazil. zuanon@inpa.gov.br
  • 3. Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biologia Aquática (CPBA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) and Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Caixa Postal 478, 69011-970 Manaus, AM, Brazil. zuanon@inpa.gov.br

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Rodrigues, Raoni Rosa, Carvalho, Lucélia Nobre, Zuanon, Jansen, Del-Claro, Kleber (2009): Color changing and behavioral context in the Amazonian Dwarf Cichlid Apistogramma hippolytae (Perciformes). Neotropical Ichthyology 7 (4): 641-646, DOI: 10.1590/s1679-62252009000400013, URL: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1679-62252009000400013

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