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Improving The Ecological Understanding Of Species Complexes: The Case Of Piscivory And Protracted Spawning In The Carp Gudgeon Group Hypseleotris Spp. (Eleotridae, Teleostei), Lorenzo Vilizzi, Ali̇ Serhan Tarkan
Improving The Ecological Understanding Of Species Complexes: The Case Of Piscivory And Protracted Spawning In The Carp Gudgeon Group Hypseleotris Spp. (Eleotridae, Teleostei), Lorenzo Vilizzi, Ali̇ Serhan Tarkan
Turkish Journal of Zoology
Species complexes are a common occurrence in freshwater fish assemblages and may often pose a challenge to the understanding of their ecology. A typical case is the `cryptic' carp gudgeon group Hypseleotris spp. in southeastern Australia, which is thought to comprise four closely related species occurring sympatrically within the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), where flow delivery scenarios have been proposed for the management and conservation of the native fish faunas. The objective of this study was to provide a deeper insight into the occurrence of piscivory and protracted spawning seasons in Hypseleotris spp. based on six years of sampling, and to …