When cleanerfish become anemonefish

Here we report on a previously undocumented facultative symbiosis involving the wrasses Labroides dimidiatus and Thallasoma amblycephalum living in association with two species of sea anemones, on coral reefs in the north-western Pacific. By SCUBA diving we observed juvenile L. dimidiatus occurring...

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Published in:Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2006-10, Vol.86 (5), p.1265-1266
Main Authors: Arvedlund, Michael, Hattori, Akihisa, Iwao, Kenji, Takemura, Akihiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amphiprion frenatus
Animal and plant ecology
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Biological and medical sciences
Coral reefs
Dascyllus trimaculatus
Entacmaea quadricolor
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Heteractis magnifica
Labroides dimidiatus
Marine
Research Article
Scuba diving
Sea water ecosystems
Symbiosis
Synecology
Thallasoma amblycephalum
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Summary:Here we report on a previously undocumented facultative symbiosis involving the wrasses Labroides dimidiatus and Thallasoma amblycephalum living in association with two species of sea anemones, on coral reefs in the north-western Pacific. By SCUBA diving we observed juvenile L. dimidiatus occurring in Entacmaea quadricolor (solitary type) cleaning the anemonefish Amphiprion frenatus and in Heteractis magnifica cleaning the anemonefish Dascyllus trimaculatus. Thallasoma amblycephalum co-existed in H. magnifica with the anemonefish D. trimaculatus, A. ocellaris and L. dimidiatus.
ISSN:0025-3154
1469-7769
DOI:10.1017/S0025315406014275