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Potential threat of the international aquarium fish trade to silver arawana Osteoglossum bicirrhosum...

Potential threat of the international aquarium fish trade to silver arawana Osteoglossum bicirrhosum...

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Potential threat of the international aquarium fish trade to silver arawana Osteoglossum bicirrhosum in the Peruvian Amazon

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Full title

Potential threat of the international aquarium fish trade to silver arawana Osteoglossum bicirrhosum in the Peruvian Amazon

Publisher

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Journal title

Oryx, 2006-04, Vol.40 (2), p.152-160

Language

English

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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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Contents

Silver arawana Osteoglossum bicirrhosum are increasingly popular on the international aquarium fish market, but the routine killing of mouth brooding adults to collect juveniles for the trade may threaten wild populations. We describe the aquarium trade and fishery for silver arawana in the Peruvian Amazon. This is the first such report on the spec...

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Potential threat of the international aquarium fish trade to silver arawana Osteoglossum bicirrhosum in the Peruvian Amazon

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_19303493

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_19303493

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ISSN

0030-6053

E-ISSN

1365-3008

DOI

10.1017/S0030605306000603

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