Journal
JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY
Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages 960-965Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyw022
Keywords
bottlenose dolphin; hagfish; Mediterranean Sea; Myxine glutinosa; Tursiops truncatus
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Funding
- Ocean Care
- Associazione Amici di Riccardo Domenici
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An unusual observation of a hagfish (Myxine glutinosa) anchored to a living bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) was documented in an encounter with a group of about 80 dolphins during an ongoing long-term research program on cetaceans in the central Mediterranean Sea, Italy. The body of the hagfish was observed extruding from the blowhole of the bottlenose dolphin showing a stereotypical surfacing-breathing pattern. The observation lasted 2 h; photo-identification, acoustic, and behavioral data were collected. Succorant behaviors (i.e., standing by) from conspecifics and overlapping vocalizations during social phases were recorded. The dolphin was encountered again after 1 month in the same area without the hagfish, apparently in healthy conditions.
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