Intentional partial beaching in a coral reef fish: a newly recorded hunting behaviour for titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens.
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ArticleKAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionEnvironmental Science and Engineering Program
Marine Science
Marine Science Program
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Makkah Saudi Arabia
Reef Ecology Lab
Date
2020-09-27Online Publication Date
2020-09-27Print Publication Date
2020-11Embargo End Date
2021-09-01Submitted Date
2020-07-19Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/665004
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Coral reef fishes use a multitude of diverse feeding behaviours to increase their ability to successfully capture a wide range of prey. Here, we report a novel hunting behaviour in a coral reef fish, the titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens, where an individual was seen partially beaching itself while attempting to catch a Red Sea ghost crab, Ocypode saratan. This is the first report of this behaviour in the order Tetraodontiformes, and represents an astonishing capability for this species to exploit food resources outside their typical assumed ecological niche.Citation
Tietbohl, M. D., Hardenstine, R. S., Tanabe, L. K., Hulver, A. M., & Berumen, M. L. (2020). Intentional partial beaching in a coral reef fish: a newly recorded hunting behaviour for titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens. Journal of Fish Biology. doi:10.1111/jfb.14513Sponsors
This work was funded and supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. We thank the Dream Divers captains and staff for support during this trip and providing logistic operations in the field. We also thank Dr. Noah Bressman and two anonymous reviewers for comments on this manuscript, and Irene Salinas Akhmadeeva for her assistance in providing drawings for Figure 2Publisher
WileyJournal
Journal of fish biologyPubMed ID
32864738Additional Links
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jfb.14513ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/jfb.14513
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