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Deep cleaning: a wrasse and a goby clean reef fish below 60 m depth in the tropical south-western Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2010

Ivan Sazima ,
Alice Grossman  and
Cristina Sazima
Ivan Sazima*
Affiliation:
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil(retired and associated as voluntary researcher)
Alice Grossman
Affiliation:
All Angle Images LTDA, 53990-000 Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil
Cristina Sazima
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: I. Sazima, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil email: isazima@gmail.com
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Abstract

Most studies and records of cleaning symbiosis between reef fish originate from shallow waters, ranging about 1–30 m depth. We record herein the wrasse Bodianus pulchellus and the goby Elacatinus phthirophagus cleaning below 60 m depth in the tropical south-western Atlantic. The wrasse was recorded cleaning two large piscivorous clients (a jack and a grouper) and the goby was recorded cleaning a grouper. Cleaning interactions between deep-reef fish and both of these cleaners may be expected at depths even greater than those reported here.

Keywords

cleaning symbiosisdeep-reef fishLabridaeBodianus pulchellusGobiidaeElacatinus phthirophagus
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 3 , June 2010 , e60
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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