A comparative study of cleaning activity of two reef fishes at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, tropical West Atlantic

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-220

  Francini Filho, Ronaldo Bastos ^a,b   Sazima, Ivan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cleaning symbiosis; Elacatinus; Thalassoma: SW Atlantic

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BODY SIZE; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; ONTOGENY; PERCIFORM; PREDATION RISK; REEF; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; FERNANDO DE NORONHA; PERNAMBUCO; SOUTH AMERICA;

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; CHROMIS MULTILINEATA; ELACATINUS; ELACATINUS RANDALLI; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; PISCES; THALASSOMA; THALASSOMA NORONHANUM;

EID: 56749156834     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-007-9322-6     Document Type: Article

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