Scraping the Surface: First Records of Cleaning Associations Between Sharks and Oceanic Manta Rays
Jane Vinesky, James Thomas Ketchum, Edgar Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla
The paper documents first observations of shark-manta ray scraping interactions in the Revillagigedo Archipelago, showing sharks using manta rays as cleaning substrates and varying manta responses.
Environmental Biology of Fishes · May 7, 2026Peer-reviewedEcology