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Can members of the south-western Gila robusta species complex be distinguished by morphological features?
Journal of fish biology - 1 Jul 2017
Moran C J, O'Neill M W, Armbruster J W, Gibb A C
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The goal for this project was to re-examine key morphological characters hypothesized to differentiate Gila intermedia, Gila robusta and Gila nigra and outline methods better suited for making species designations based on morphology. Using a combination of meristic counts, morphological measurements and geometric morphometrics, morphological dissimilarities were quantified among these three putative species....
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