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ArticleJournal of fish biology2026

Mobile cleaning stations: trevally scrape on sharks in a tropical reefscape.

Nico Fassbender, Isobel B Sewell, Robert W Bullock, Jessica J Meeuwig

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Article in Journal of fish biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nico FassbenderMarine Futures Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1645-757X
Isobel B SewellOceans Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Robert W BullockD'Arros Research Centre, Save Our Seas Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2843-0518
Jessica J MeeuwigMarine Futures Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Funding

Australian Government Research Training ProgramCoral Reef Restoration Project PIMS5736Save Our Seas Foundation Keystone Special Grant 494The Jock Clough Marine FoundationUNDP Mauritius and the Government of Seychelles
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inter-species scraping has been reported between sharks and some teleost fish species to reduce ectoparasite loads and thereby increase fish health in an otherwise featureless pelagic environment. Here we report observations of interspecific scraping behaviour in reef environments between three species of trevally and three species of shark in the Seychelles Archipelago. These include the first scraping interactions for bull sharks Carcharhinus leucas and tiger sharks Galeocerdo cuvier observed in the wild. The interactions occurred despite the availability of cleaning stations and rough substrates suitable for self-scraping. These observations further our understanding of inter-species cleaning relationships in reef-associated fish and sharks, and suggest that sharks may play a role in supporting reef fish health.

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Behavior, AnimalCoral ReefsSharksAnimalsTropical ClimatebehaviourCarangidaeectoparasiteelasmobranchhealthWestern Indian Ocean

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PMID41757431
PMCPMC13397265

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