A new genus and two new species of myrophine worm-eels, with comments on Muraenichthys and Scolecenchelys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae)
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عنوان ژورنال: Records of the Australian Museum
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0067-1975
DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.51.1999.1300