Turtle riders: Remoras on marine turtles in Southwest Atlantic

Neotropical Ichthyology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-126

  Sazima, Ivan ^a   Grossman, Alice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Projeto TAMAR IBAMA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Echeneis; Feeding association; Marine symbiosis; Mating opportunity; Phoresis; Remora

Indexed keywords

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; ECHENEIDAE; ECHENEIS; ECHENEIS NAUCRATES; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; REMORA; REMORA REMORA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33847256513     PISSN: 16796225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252006000100014     Document Type: Review

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