Interspecific associations in mediterranean fishes : Feeding communities, cleaning symbioses and cleaner mimics

Vie et Milieu

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-212

  Zander, C D ^a   Nieder, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cleaners; Fishes; Interspecific contact; Mimicry; Primary and complementary; Species association

Indexed keywords

CLEANING BEHAVIOUR; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS; MIMICRY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CORIS JULIS; SYMPHODUS MELANOCERCUS;

EID: 0031414414     PISSN: 02408759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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