Cleaner birds: An overview for the neotropics;Aves limpadoras: Uma visão geral para os Neotrápicos

Biota Neotropica

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 195-203

  Sazima, Ivan ^a   Sazima, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Association with vertebrates; Cleaning symbiosis; Ectoparasite and tissue removal; Opportunistic birds

Indexed keywords

AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CERVIDAE; CORAGYPS; CORAGYPS ATRATUS; GEOSPIZA DIFFICILIS; GEOSPIZA FULIGINOSA; IGUANIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; SULIDAE; TESTUDINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952337197     PISSN: 16786424     EISSN: 16760611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1676-06032010000400025     Document Type: Article

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