A juvenile sharksucker, Echeneis naucrates (Echeneidae), acting as a station-based cleaner fish

Cybium

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 377-380

  Sazima, I ^a   Moura, R L ^b   Rodrigues, M C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ASW; Cleaning station; Cleaning symbiosis; Echeneidae; Echeneis naucrates; Northern Brazil; Sharksucker

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033620039     PISSN: 03990974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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