Patterns of cleaner wrasse density among three regions of the Pacific

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 177, Issue , 1999, Pages 213-220

  Arnal, Céline ^a   Morand, Serge ^a   Kulbicki, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cleaner fish; Fish body size; Fish density; Fish gregariousness; Indo Pacific; Labroides spp.

Indexed keywords

CLEANER FISH; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; LOYALTY ISLANDS; OUVEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; TUAMOTU;

ANIMALIA; LABROIDES; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; PERCIFORMES; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033545392     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps177213     Document Type: Article

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