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References
- ↑ FishBase Catalogue of Life, ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System (15 Feb 2015)
- ↑ Bailly, N. (2010) Why there may be discrepancies in the assessment of scientific names between the Catalog of Fishes and FishBase FishBase
- ↑ Eschmeyer WN, Fong JD (2015) Species by family/subfamily in the Catalog of Fishes California Academy of Sciences (15 Feb 2015)
- ↑ Biodiversity Information Projects of the World: Catalog of Fishes Archived 2015-02-15 at the Wayback Machine Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) project
- ↑ Rainer Froese: Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes FishBase (15 Feb 2015)