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Seasonality of Reproduction in Amazonian Fishes

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Reproductive Biology of South American Vertebrates

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In his famous monograph on the fisheries of Amazonia, José Veríssimo (1895) emphasized the need for studying the times of reproduction of different species in relation to annual water level changes. Veríssimo also made a reasonably accurate estimation of about 2000 Amazonian species, one-tenth of which he considered to be well known because of their importance as commercially utilized food fishes.

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  1. Indiana University School of Medicine South Bend Center for Medical Education, University of Notre Dame, 46556, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

    William C. Hamlett

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Schwassmann, H.O. (1992). Seasonality of Reproduction in Amazonian Fishes. In: Hamlett, W.C. (eds) Reproductive Biology of South American Vertebrates. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2866-0_5

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