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ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías

SECTION B: LIFE SCIENCES

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2014)

Expansion of <em>Brycon dentex</em> (Characiformes: Characidae) and <em>Hamuelopsis elongatus</em> (Perciformes: Heamulidae) distribution in Ecuador

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v6i2.174
Submitted
September 30, 2015
Published
2014-12-19

Abstract

The fishes Brycon dentex and Hamuelopsis elongatus were collected for the first time in the Santiago-Cayapas ictiohidrographic zone, at the Mira and Camumbi rivers, River Mira basin, Tobar Donoso area, province of Carchi, Ecuador. Previous records of the species were from the Esmeraldas and Intertidal ictiohidrographic zones, respectively.

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