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Breeding behaviour of the red-bellied piranha,Pygocentrus nattereri, in nature

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  1. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, 79100, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

    Massao Uetanabaro

  2. Department of Zoophysiology, University of Aarhus, DK 8000, Aarhus, Denmark

    Tobias Wang

  3. Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Caixa Postal 199, 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil

    Augusto S. Abe

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Uetanabaro, M., Wang, T. & Abe, A.S. Breeding behaviour of the red-bellied piranha,Pygocentrus nattereri, in nature. Environ Biol Fish 38, 369–371 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00007529

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