Artículos de revistas
Cleaning interactions between the cleaner wrasse Symphodus melanocercus (Osteichthyes: Labridae) and brown meagre Sciaena umbra (Osteichthyes: Sciaenidae)
Fecha
2018-06-01Registro en:
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, v. 98, n. 4, p. 829-831, 2018.
1469-7769
0025-3154
10.1017/S0025315417000029
2-s2.0-85011845622
2-s2.0-85011845622.pdf
Autor
University of Rome La Sapienza
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Via della Ricerca Scientifica
Institución
Resumen
Cleaning interactions between the wrasse Symphodus melanocercus and brown meagre Sciaena umbra are documented from observations whilst free diving on a shallow rocky reef in the central Mediterranean Sea. Cleaning events occurred at cleaning stations mainly during the morning and gradually decreased in the evening. The body parts mostly cleaned were the opercular region and the fins, possibly as gnathiid isopods preferentially attach to these areas.