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Under sea turtles: yellow jacks, Carangoides bartholomaei, use swimming turtles as shelter in the tropical south-western Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2011

Pablo Mendonça ,
Alice Grossman ,
José Sabino  and
Manuel Haimovici
Pablo Mendonça*
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Oceanografia Biológica, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Avenida Itália km 8, CP 474, 96201-900 Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Alice Grossman
Affiliation:
All Angle Images Ltda., 53990-000, Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil
José Sabino
Affiliation:
Universidade Anhanguera, Laboratório de Biodiversidade, Ecologia e Conservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos—UNIDERP, CP 2153, 79003-010, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Manuel Haimovici
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Oceanografia Biológica, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Avenida Itália km 8, CP 474, 96201-900 Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: P. Mendonça, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Oceanografia Biológica, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Avenida Itália km 8, CP 474, 96201-900 Rio Grande, RS, Brazil email: pablomendonca@furg.br
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Abstract

The opportunistic carnivore fish yellow jack (Carangoides bartholomaei) is recorded using swimming hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) and green (Chelonia mydas) turtles as shelter to rove at Baía do Sueste, Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, north-eastern Brazil. This behaviour is probably employed by the fish to disguise and ambush its prey while roving over the reef flat.

Keywords

‘following’ behaviourCarangidaeCheloniidaenorth-eastern Brazil
Type
Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 4 , December 2011 , e72
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

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