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Lebistes reticulatus has always been considered as a strictly freshwater fish1 (that is, it can tolerate only a narrow range of salt concentration in the water). In an evacuation canal, which opens in the sea, at Hann (north of Dakar), we were astonished to find numerous individuals of this species, even in spots where the concentration of sea-water was rather high. Experiments in the laboratory led us to the following conclusions:
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Pickford, G., and Atz, W., N.Y. Zool. Soc. Pub., 156 (1955).
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MOHSEN, T., EMERIT, M. Adaptive Euryhalinity in the Cyprinodont Lebistes reticulatus Peters. Nature 190, 932–933 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/190932a0
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