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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology Volume 75, 1981 - Issue 3
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Observations on Aphanius dispar (Rüppell, 1828), a mosquito larvivorous fish in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Ataur-RahimFreshwater Fishery Unit, Department of Zoology, Liverpool University, P.O. Box 147, LiverpoolL69 3BX
Pages 359-362 | Received 01 Feb 1980, Published online: 11 Mar 2016
 
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Abstract

The cyprinodontid fish Aphanius dispar (Rüppell, 1828) is an omnivore and will eat mosquito larvae in disused water storage tanks etc. The species is indigenous and common in Saudi Arabia; it has few predators.

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