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The Fishes of Ein Feshkha, Palestine

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THE Ein Feshkha area is a marshy stretch of the north-western coast of the Dead Sea. The fauna of the area, which has developed over a long period in total isolation, should have attracted zoologists, in view of the evolutionary problems as well as the special ecological aspects of a thermal–mineral–water fauna; but as no comprehensive account of these problems has so far appeared, the following points may be of interest.

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STEINITZ, H. The Fishes of Ein Feshkha, Palestine. Nature 167, 531–532 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167531b0

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