Journal
NEOTROPICAL ICHTHYOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 187-192Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA ICTIOLOGIA
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252010005000003
Keywords
Cleaning symbiosis; Foraging association; Cheloniidae; Tropical Western Atlantic
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- FAPESP
- CNPq
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In the present study we record several instances of reef fish species foraging on epibionts of sea turtles (cleaning symbiosis) at the oceanic islands of Fernando de Noronha Archipelago and near a shipwreck, both off the coast of Pernambuco State, northeast Brazil. Nine reef fish species and three turtle species involved in cleaning are herein recorded. Besides our records, a summary of the literature on this association type is presented. Postures adopted by turtles during the interaction are related to the habits of associated fishes. Feeding associations between fishes and turtles seem a localized, albeit common, phenomenon.
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