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Cleaner wrasse forage on ectoparasitic digeneans (phylum Platyhelminthes) that infect pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus)

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We thank Medel Silvosa, Cecille Rosales, Gary Cases, Ian Pritchard, and Joan Griffiths for field and lab support, and Attila Bicskos Kaszo for contributing photographic material.

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  1. School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, LL59 5AB, Wales, United Kingdom

    H. F. Cadwallader & J. R. Turner

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ, United Kingdom

    S. P. Oliver

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Cadwallader, H.F., Turner, J.R. & Oliver, S.P. Cleaner wrasse forage on ectoparasitic digeneans (phylum Platyhelminthes) that infect pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus). Mar Biodiv 45, 613–614 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0290-8

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