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459:Ralf Britz; Kevin W. Conway; Lukas Rüber (2009).
553:Photo In The News: New "Dracula" Fish Discovered
512:Tiny fish developed its own set of dracula fangs
379:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T167874A6403815.en
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434:'Dracula' fish shows baby teeth
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793:Endemic fauna of Myanmar
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803:Fish described in 2009
481:10.1098/rspb.2009.0141
244:. A close relative is
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372:: e.T167874A6403815.
558:National Geographic
539:The Daily Telegraph
475:(1665): 2179–2186.
31:Conservation status
625:danionella-dracula
611:Danionella dracula
581:Danionella dracula
463:Danionella dracula
407:Danionella dracula
358:Danionella dracula
319:sexually dimorphic
211:Danionella dracula
180:Danionella dracula
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385:20 November
336:vertebrates
328:Bram Stoker
308:crustaceans
304:fish flakes
247:Danio rerio
134:Subfamily:
783:Danionella
772:Categories
342:References
271:Sha Du Zup
260:tooth-like
234:freshwater
149:Danionella
138:Danioninae
128:Cyprinidae
517:The Times
300:nematodes
252:zebrafish
228:from the
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78:Eukaryota
672:FishBase
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590:Wikidata
499:19324738
438:BBC News
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273:between
230:cyprinid
223:danionin
220:tropical
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256:dracula
242:Myanmar
238:endemic
216:species
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279:Tanai
236:fish
195:Rüber
187:Britz
724:NCBI
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685:GBIF
633:BOLD
495:PMID
387:2021
370:2010
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