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Science 28 August 1964:
Vol. 145. no. 3635, pp. 948 - 949
DOI: 10.1126/science.145.3635.948
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Symbiotic Behavior among Fishes from Temperate Ocean Waters

F. H. McCutcheon 1 and A. E. McCutcheon 1

1 Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, and Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4

Symbiotic cleaning among Atlantic coastal fishes has been observed under laboratory conditions. The cleaning phenomenon may be commonplace in the natural environment along the Atlantic seaboard. The black sea bass, Centropristes striatus (Linn.), parasitized by the copepod, Lernaeenicus radiatus (Le Sueur), was cleaned by a topminnow, Fundulus heteroclitus (Linn.). The behavior was recorded by cinematography and analyzed

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