JAPANESE JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
Online ISSN : 2424-127X
Print ISSN : 0021-5007
ISSN-L : 0021-5007
CLEANING BEHAVIORS OF THE RAINBOW WRASSE, LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS. II.
Ryonosuke OKUNO
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1969 Volume 19 Issue 6 Pages 217-222

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Supplementary observations on the cleaning behaviors of L. dimidiatus were studied in small tanks of the Suma Aquarium and in the open sea. 1) In this research also, as in the previous report, almost all the fishes having the same geographical and ecological distribution as L. dimidiatus displayed the requesting behavior to the wrasse. 2) Requesting behaviors were immediately shown by the fishes isolated from L. dimidiatus for more than two years and also by the young fishes which might not be encounter with the wrasse after hatching. 3) It may be concluded that requesting display of many rocky and coral reef fishes to L. dimidiatus has been now developed to a instinctive nature.
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© 1969 The Ecological Society of Japan
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