Journal Article
The Gulf of Guinea goby‐shrimp symbiosis and a review of goby‐thalassinidean associations
Wirtz, P.
Record Number:
4845
Year:
2008
Journal:
Life and Marine Sciences
Pages:
71-76
Volume:
25
Abstract:
An undescribed species of the family Gobiidae shares the burrows of the axiid shrimp
Axiopsis serratifrons at São Tomé and Príncipe (central eastern Atlantic). In contrast to
similar associations of gobiid fishes with alpheid shrimps in the Indo-Pacific and the
western Atlantic (where the goby serves as a sentinel for the crustacean and the shrimp
leaves the burrow only if the goby remains at the burrow entrance), the axiid appears to
completely ignore the goby, which rests near the opening of the burrow. Facultative and
obligatory associations of gobies with thalassinidean shrimps are reviewed.
Key words: Axiidae, convergent evolution, Gobiidae, São Tomé and Príncipe, symbiosis
Times Cited:
1
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