The piggybacking stingray

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Meekan, M.G.;Trevitt, L.;Simpfendorfer, C.A.;White, W.
Colin Simpfendorfer
Abstract

[Extract] The pink whipray, Himantura fai, is a large (maximum disc width 146 cm) ray that occurs in coastal soft-sediment habitats in the Indian Ocean, northern Australia and parts of Southeast Asia to Micronesia in the western Pacific (Last and Stevens 2009). Behaviourally, the species is unique because multiple individuals often piggyback on members of the same species (Last and Stevens 2009) and on other, larger stingrays.

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Coral Reefs

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35

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1432-0975

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3

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Springer

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10.1007/s00338-016-1429-9