| dactylogyrids (platyhelminthes: monogenoidea) parasitizing butterfly fishes (teleostei: chaetodontidae) from the coral reefs of palau, moorea, wallis, new caledonia, and australia: species of euryhaliotrematoides n. gen. and aliatrema n. gen. | seven species of euryhaliotrematoides n. gen. and 1 species of aliatrema n. gen. (monogenoidea; dactylogyridae) are described and reported from the gills of 15 species of butterfly fishes (chaetodontidae) from the coral reefs of moorea (french polynesia), wallis (wallis and futuna), heron and lizard (australia), palau (micronesia), and new caledonia: aliatrema cribbi n. sp. from chaetodon auriga, chaetodon lunula, chaetodon trifasciatus, chaetodon ulietensis, chaetodon vagabundus, forcipiger fla ... | 2004 | 15165056 |
| a complex of species related to paradiscogaster glebulae (digenea: faustulidae) in chaetodontid fishes (teleostei: perciformes) of the great barrier reef. | a total of 1523 individuals of 34 species of chaetodontids from the great barrier reef were examined for faustulid trematodes. specimens resembling paradiscogaster glebulae bray, cribb & barker, 1994 were found in nine chaetodontid species at three localities. these specimens are shown, on the basis of combined morphological and molecular analyses, to comprise a complex of morphologically similar and partly cryptic species. the complex may comprise as many as six distinct species of which three ... | 2015 | 26096311 |
| cryptic dietary components reduce dietary overlap among sympatric butterflyfishes (chaetodontidae). | this study used three different methods to ascertain dietary composition for 21 chaetodontidae species co-occurring on a single fringing reef in derawan island, east kalimantan, indonesia. the combination of in situ feeding observations, examination of gut contents and stable-isotope analyses was expected to identify previously unresolved prey items that contribute to dietary separation. in situ feeding observations identified five species that feed predominantly on anthozoans (chaetodon barones ... | 2009 | 20738604 |
| phylogeography of two closely related indo-pacific butterflyfishes reveals divergent evolutionary histories and discordant results from mtdna and microsatellites. | marine biogeographic barriers can have unpredictable consequences, even among closely related species. to resolve phylogeographic patterns for indo-pacific reef fauna, we conducted range-wide surveys of sister species, the scrawled butterflyfish (chaetodon meyeri; n = 134) and the ornate butterflyfish (chaetodon ornatissimus; n = 296), using mitochondrial dna cytochrome b sequences and 10 microsatellite loci. the former is distributed primarily in the indian ocean but also extends to the line is ... | 2012 | 22888133 |
| mutualistic cleaner fish initiate trait-mediated indirect interactions by influencing the behaviour of coral predators. | 1. indirect interactions resulting from changes in organismal traits such as behaviour [i.e. trait-mediated indirect interactions (tmiis)] are widespread in biological communities, yet few studies have explored the potential for mutualisms to initiate tmiis. 2. this study used a combination of behavioural observations and manipulative field experiments to investigate potential tmiis resulting from a mutualism between specialized cleaner fish and the 'clients' that visit cleaners for the removal ... | 2012 | 22256960 |
| bone lipids of marine fishes. | assessment of candidates for investigation of bone lipid metabolism yielded the following findings. (1) a tropical marine butterflyfish, chaetodon ornatissimus, had oil-filled bones (66-80% lipid, percent dry weight) hence may be a suitable condidate. (2) the tropical marine fishes exallias brevis, pomacentrus jenkensi, and chromus agilis, and a canadian fish sebastes ruberrimus, had intermediate quantities of oil in their bones (12-49% lipid). (3) in all the foregoing species the major bone lip ... | 1976 | 1029017 |