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Phenotypic divergence may facilitate co-occurrence in Acanthopagrus species (Family: Sparidae).
Journal of fish biology - 1 May 2026
Lin Yu-Jia
Abstract excerpt
Understanding why closely related species co-occur is one fundamental question in ecology. The seabream genus Acanthopagrus Peters, 1855 (Sparidae) is broadly distributed across the Indo-Pacific, with four species, A. arabicus and A. sheim (yellowfin group), and A. bifasciatus and A. catenula (doublebar group), coexisting in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. To investigate how phenotypic divergence facilitates...
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