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Possibility of habitat segregation between two sympatric species of Japanese dojo loach in the Naka-ikemi Wetland, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

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Acknowledgements

We thank the NPO Naka-ikemi Net members for their assistance with sample collection at the Naka-ikemi Wetland. We also thank Dr. K. Hosoya, Kindai University for advice and Y. Nishi and S. Ueda, Kindai University and other members of our laboratory for assistance with specimen sampling in the study. We express our sincere thanks to two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

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    Ryuya Okada & Tadao Kitagawa

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Okada, R., Kitagawa, T. Possibility of habitat segregation between two sympatric species of Japanese dojo loach in the Naka-ikemi Wetland, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Ichthyol Res 65, 412–416 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-018-0618-7

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