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Original Articles

Abundance, distribution, and secondary production of the apple snail Pomacea flagellata (Say, 1829) in Bacalar Lake, a tropical karstic system in southern Mexico

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Pages 1-9 | Received 08 May 2017, Accepted 22 May 2018, Published online: 14 Jun 2018

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