DISPERSAL OF ZOOXANTHELLAE ON CORAL REEFS BY PREDATORS ON CNIDARIANS

Open Access

1 August 1984

journal article
research article
Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin

Vol. 167 (1) , 159-167
https://doi.org/10.2307/1541344

Abstract

Fish and nudibranchs prey on cnidarians that contain high densities of symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae). Several fish (Arothron meleagris, Chaetodon au...