The juvenile freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (Crustacea-Decapoda) as an effective zooplankton predator
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عنوان ژورنال: Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries
سال: 2008
ISSN: 2536-9814
DOI: 10.21608/ejabf.2008.1973