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  2. Cleaning station - Wikipedia

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    Cleaning station. A reef manta ray at a cleaning station, maintaining a near stationary position atop a coral patch for several minutes while being cleaned. A rockmover wrasse being cleaned by Hawaiian cleaner wrasses on a reef in Hawaii. Some manini and a filefish wait their turn. A cleaning station is a location where aquatic life congregate ...

  3. Cleaner fish - Wikipedia

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    Cleaning behaviour takes place in pelagic waters as well as designated locations called cleaner stations. [8] Cleaner fish interaction durations and memories of reoccurring clients are influenced by the neuroendocrine system of the fish, involving hormones arginine vasotocin, Isotocin and serotonin. [3] Conspicuous coloration is a method used ...

  4. Cleaning symbiosis - Wikipedia

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    Cleaning symbiosis is a mutually beneficial association between individuals of two species, where one (the cleaner) removes and eats parasites and other materials from the surface of the other (the client). Cleaning symbiosis is well-known among marine fish, where some small species of cleaner fish, notably wrasses but also species in other ...

  5. Ancylomenes pedersoni - Wikipedia

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    Ancylomenes pedersoni. Ancylomenes pedersoni, sometimes known as Pederson's shrimp and Pederson's cleaner shrimp, is a species of cleaner shrimp. [2][3] It is part of the genus Ancylomenes and was described in 1958 by Fenner A. Chace Jr. as Periclimenes pedersoni. [1][4] Ancylomenes pedersoni is found in the Caribbean Sea, often associated with ...

  6. Cleaner shrimp - Wikipedia

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    Cleaner shrimp. A Pacific cleaner shrimp, Lysmata amboinensis, cleans the mouth of a moray eel. Ancylomenes magnificus provides a manicure for a diver. Cleaner shrimp is a common name for a number of swimming decapod crustaceans that clean other organisms of parasites. Most are found in the families Hippolytidae (including the Pacific cleaner ...

  7. Periclimenes - Wikipedia

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    Periclimenes, commonly known as glass shrimp or cleaner shrimp, is a commensal and often symbiotic genus of semi-transparent shrimp within the family Palaemonidae. Species of this large genus feature a wide variety of coloration and patterns, widespread distribution throughout much of the world's tropical oceans, and are often sought out for aquarium trade.

  8. Lysmata grabhami - Wikipedia

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    Hippolysmata grabhami Gordon, 1935. Lysmata grabhami is a species of saltwater shrimp in the family Hippolytidae. It was first described by Gordon in 1935. [1] It occurs in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean and is a cleaner shrimp, operating a cleaning station to which fish come to have parasites removed.

  9. Stenopus hispidus - Wikipedia

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    Stenopus hispidus lives below the intertidal zone, at depth of up to 210 metres (690 ft), [2] on coral reefs. [5] It is a cleaner shrimp, and advertises to passing fish by slowly waving its long, white antennae.