Cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus reduce 'temporary' parasitic corallanid isopods on the coral reef fish Hemigymnus melapterus

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 234, Issue , 2002, Pages 247-255

  Grutter, A S ^a   Lester, R J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cleaner fish; Cleaning behaviour; Corallanidae; Isopoda; Labroides dimidiatus

Indexed keywords

CLEANER FISH; CORAL REEF; FISH CULTURE; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; LIZARD ISLAND;

ANTHOZOA; ARGATHONA; ARGATHONA MACRONEMA; CORALLANIDAE; HEMIGYMNUS; HEMIGYMNUS MELAPTERUS; ISOPODA; LABRIDAE; LABROIDES; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; MACRONEMA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0037014173     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps234247     Document Type: Article

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