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Cleaner fishes


  • Here are entered works on fishes that remove parasites and dead skin from the bodies of other aquatic animals.
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    • found: Work cat: Tuttle, L. Interactions among Invasive Pacific Red Lionfish, Fish Parasites, and Cleaning Mutualisms Native to Atlantic Coral Reefs, 2016:(With few parasites limiting them, lionfish may consume ecologically important species, including Elacatinus spp. cleaning gobies: ubiquitous, conspicuous fishes that remove ectoparasites from other reef fishes)
    • found: ScienceDirect, Aug. 29, 2016What is a cleaner fish? ('cleaners': animals which remove parasites, tissue, mucus and sometimes even blood from other animals referred to as hosts, customers or clients. Cleaners include polychaetes, crustaceans, ants, lizards, turtles, and most commonly, birds and fishes. While birds are well-known for cleaning crocodiles and mammals, cleaner fish generally clean other fishes, including sharks and rays, but some also clean lobsters, turtles, octopuses, marine iguanas, whales, and even hippopotamuses)
    • found: Grutter, A. Cleaner fish, 2010:(Cleaner fish are found in marine, freshwater and brackish water all over the world. Marine cleaner fish include many wrasses, and some triggerfish, butterflyfish, diskfish, damselfish, angelfish, gobies, leatherjackets, pipefish, seachubs, surfperch, suckerfish, jacks and topsmelt. Freshwater cleaner fishes include cichlids, guppies, carp, centrarchids, killifish and sticklebacks)
    • found: Zamzow, J. Investigation of green turtle fibropapillomatosis and the potential role of cleaner fishes and reef habitat characteristics in disease transmission in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, 1998.
    • found: Adam, T. Cooperation in a cleaner fish mutualism and its ecological implications, 2010.
    • found: Oates, J. Cooperation in cleaner fish mutualisms : the role of repeated interactions, 2011.
    • found: Méndez Merced, A. Distribution patterns of the cleaner fish Gobiosoma evelynae, (Pisces: Gobiidae), in relation to its habitat and temporal changes, 1986.
    • found: Levitan, C. A review of the biology of some fish species with potential to act as cleaner fish in salmon farming to control sea lice, 1991.
    • notfound: Mcgraw Hill Dictionary Of Scientific And Technical Terms, 2003.
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    • Here are entered works on fishes that remove parasites and dead skin from the bodies of other aquatic animals.
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    • 2016-07-07: new
    • 2016-10-18: revised
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