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Morphological trophic variation of the cyprinid Megalobrama pellegrini (Tchang, 1930) with different keratinized beaks from upper reaches of the Yangtze River, China

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Published in 2019 at "Environmental Biology of Fishes"

DOI: 10.1007/s10641-019-00937-9

Abstract: Megalobrama pellegrini, a cyprinid endemic to the upper Yangtze River China, has thick keratinized beaks on the jaws and feeds on algae and molluscs. The size of keratinized beaks varies among different individuals. In the… read more here.

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