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The almost invisible league: Crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators

Camouflage is one of the most widespread defence modes used by substrate-dwelling animals, whereas transparency is generally found in open-water organisms. Both these defence types are regarded as effective against visually guided predators. We present here three assemblages of similarly-sized fresh...

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Autor principal: Carvalho, Lucélia Nobre
Outros Autores: Zuanon, Jansen, Sazima, Ivan
Grau: Artigo
Idioma: English
Publicado em: Neotropical Ichthyology 2020
Assuntos:
Animalsia
Decapoda (crustacea)
Pisces
Acesso em linha: https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/14635
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spelling oai:repositorio:1-14635 The almost invisible league: Crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators Carvalho, Lucélia Nobre Zuanon, Jansen Sazima, Ivan Animalsia Decapoda (crustacea) Pisces Camouflage is one of the most widespread defence modes used by substrate-dwelling animals, whereas transparency is generally found in open-water organisms. Both these defence types are regarded as effective against visually guided predators. We present here three assemblages of similarly-sized freshwater fish and shrimp species which apparently rely on camouflage and transparency to evade some of their potential predators. In one of the associations, there is a transition from cryptic colours and translucency to transparency of the component species according to the position each of them occupies in the habitat. The likeness between the fishes and the shrimps is here regarded as a type of protective association similar to numerical or social mimicry. Additionally, we suggest that the assemblage may contain Batesian-like mimicry components. Copyright © 2006 Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia. 2020-04-24T16:55:32Z 2020-04-24T16:55:32Z 2006 Artigo https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/14635 10.1590/S1679-62252006000200008 en Volume 4, Número 2, Pags. 219-224 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazil http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/ application/pdf Neotropical Ichthyology
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topic Animalsia
Decapoda (crustacea)
Pisces
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Decapoda (crustacea)
Pisces
Carvalho, Lucélia Nobre
The almost invisible league: Crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators
topic_facet Animalsia
Decapoda (crustacea)
Pisces
description Camouflage is one of the most widespread defence modes used by substrate-dwelling animals, whereas transparency is generally found in open-water organisms. Both these defence types are regarded as effective against visually guided predators. We present here three assemblages of similarly-sized freshwater fish and shrimp species which apparently rely on camouflage and transparency to evade some of their potential predators. In one of the associations, there is a transition from cryptic colours and translucency to transparency of the component species according to the position each of them occupies in the habitat. The likeness between the fishes and the shrimps is here regarded as a type of protective association similar to numerical or social mimicry. Additionally, we suggest that the assemblage may contain Batesian-like mimicry components. Copyright © 2006 Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia.
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author Carvalho, Lucélia Nobre
author2 Zuanon, Jansen
Sazima, Ivan
author2Str Zuanon, Jansen
Sazima, Ivan
title The almost invisible league: Crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators
title_short The almost invisible league: Crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators
title_full The almost invisible league: Crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators
title_fullStr The almost invisible league: Crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators
title_full_unstemmed The almost invisible league: Crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defence against visually hunting predators
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publisher Neotropical Ichthyology
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