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	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=44491&amp;speccode=13846'>Wellington, G.M. and D.R. Robertson0 Variation in larval life-history traits among reef fishes across the Isthmus of Panama. Mar. Biol. 138(1):11-22. (Ref. 44491)</reference>
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	<reference isbn='9978-43-533' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=55763&amp;speccode=13846'>Jiménez Prado, P. and P. Béarez0 Peces Marinos del Ecuador continental. Tomo 2: Guía de Especies / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador. Volume 2: Species Guide. SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA. (Ref. 55763)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=57615&amp;speccode=13846'>Dominici-Arosemena, A. and M. Wolff0 Reef fish community structure in the Tropical Eastern Pacific (Panamá): living on a relatively stable rocky reef environment. Helgol. Mar. Res. 60:287-305. (Ref. 57615)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=58108&amp;speccode=13846'>Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences0 Chinese aquatic germplasm resources database. http://zzzy.fishinfo.cn (Ref. 58108)</reference>
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	<reference isbn='1849954984' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=128868&amp;speccode=13846'>Beolens, B., M. Grayson and M. Watkins0 Eponym dictionary of Fishes. 	Dunbeath, Caithness (Scotland, UK): Whittles Publishing Limited, 1300 p. (Ref. 128868)</reference>
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