A honeymoon in Brazil: the spawning behavior of an exotic reef fish in the western south Atlantic

The reproductive strategies of surgeonfishes of the genus Acanthurus are well known for all Atlantic species except the Monrovia doctorfish, Acanthurus monroviae, an eastern Atlantic surgeonfish whose biology remains largely unknown. We provide here the first account on the spawning behavior of A. m...

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Main Authors: Osmar J Luiz, Ivan Sazima, Luis F Waib, Carlos Eduardo L Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Series:Neotropical Ichthyology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252010000200016&lng=en&tlng=en