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Marine ornamental shrimp:status and prospects
| Title: | Marine ornamental shrimp:status and prospects. |
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| Name(s): |
Lin, Junda Zhang, Dong Creswell, R. LeRoy Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Date Issued: | 1999 | |
| Publisher: | Design Publications | |
| Place of Publication: | Asheville, NC | |
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| Extent: | 5 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | FA00007315 (IID) | |
| Note(s): |
Practically all of the over 3,000 species of marine fishes
and invertebrates marketed in the aquarium trade
industry are collected from coral reef ecosystems.
Extensive and destructive collection of these animals can
directly deplete the target species that already under
threat from habitat loss or degradation and indirectly
damage the delicate coral reef
ecosystem. Over 18 species of marine
tropical shrimps are collected for the
aquarium trade (Fletcher et al. 1995).
Many of these species are cleaner
shrimps that remove parasites off fish,
therefore play a vital role in coral
ecology (Jonasson 1987, Debelius
1984, 1985, Wilkerson 1994). Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 1335 This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Lin, J., Zhang, D., & Creswell, R. L. (1999). Marine ornamental shrimp: status and prospects. Aquaculture Magazine, 25(3), 52-55. |
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| Subject(s): |
Ornamental shrimps Coral reef ecology |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007315 | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
