Sheaves, M., Mattone, C., Barnett, A., Abrantes, K., Bradley, M., Sheaves, A., Sheaves, J., and Waltham, N.J. (2023) Whale sharks as oceanic nurseries for Golden Trevally. Pacific Conservation Biology, 23004. (In Press)

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Abstract

The Golden Trevally, Gnathanodon speciosus, is a large predatory fish with an extremely broad tropical Indo-Pacific distribution that crosses many biogeographical boundaries. Both published information and freely available imagery suggest that small juvenile G. speciosus are often associated with whale sharks, Rhincodon typus; an association that could explain the unusually widespread distribution of G. speciosus, and suggests a novel nursery relationship. The possibility of such an association has the potential to reshape our understanding of the ecological roles played by long-range migrants such as R. typus and other megafauna, our understanding of the full extent of their conservation value, and how we manage both members of the relationship.

Item ID:	79216
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	2204-4604
Keywords:	commensalism, dispersal, Gnathanodon speciosus, Golden Trevally, Indo-Pacific, mobile nurseries, Rhincodon typus, whale shark
Copyright Information:	© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
Date Deposited:	11 Jul 2023 03:45
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