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First finding of fry of the rare species Melamphaes occlusus (Melamphaidae) in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean

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Original Russian Text © A.N. Kotlyar, 2014, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 115–117.

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Kotlyar, A.N. First finding of fry of the rare species Melamphaes occlusus (Melamphaidae) in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean. J. Ichthyol. 54, 127–129 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294521401007X

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