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Item Cleaning symbiosis between hawksbill turtles and reef fishes at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off northeast Brazil(2006) GROSSMAN, A.; SAZIMA, C.; BELLINI, C.; SAZIMA, I.Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are cleaned and followed by reef fishes at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off northeast Brazil. During foraging, turtles are cleaned by damselfishes (Abudef duf saxatilis and Stegastes rocasensis), and followed by juvenile wrasses (Thalassoma noronhanum and Hal ichoeres radiatus)Item The moving gardens: reef fishes grazing, cleaning, and following green turtles(2004) SAZIMA, C.; GROSSMAN, A.; BELLINI, C.; SAZIMA, I.Reef fishes may associate with marine turtles and graze on their shells, or clean their head, neck and flippers. On a reef flat at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, SW Atlantic, we recorded green turtles (Chelonia mydas) grazed, cleaned and followed by reef fishes. The green turtle seeks specific sites on the reef and pose there for the grazers and/or cleaners. Fishes recorded associated to green turtles included omnivorous and herbivorous reef species such as the damselfish Abudefduf saxatilis and the surgeonfishes Acanthurus chirurgus and A. coeruleus. The turtle is followed by the wrasse Thalassoma noronhanum only while engaged in foraging bouts on benthic algae. Following behaviour is a previously unrecorded feeding association between turtles and fishes.