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Reef fishes stalking box crabs in the southern Caribbean
Author(s) -
de Gier Werner,
Fransen Charles H. J .M.,
Ozten Low Alev,
Hoeksema Bert W.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.1002/ecy.3068
Subject(s) - biology , ecology , reef , predation , fishery
Feeding interactions between fish species and crustaceans are not rare, such as the relations between cleaner shrimps and reef fishes (Horká et al. 2018) and between parasitic isopods and their fish hosts (Baeza 2015). In most of these cases the fish plays the main role as host and the crustacean a secondary role as associated species (Karplus 2014). This report presents an example of the opposite.