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Bluestreak cleaner wrasse. The bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) is one of several species of cleaner wrasses found on coral reefs from Eastern Africa and the Red Sea to French Polynesia. Like other cleaner wrasses, it eats parasites and dead tissue off larger fishes ' skin in a mutualistic relationship that provides food and ...
The bluestreak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, is one of the most common cleaners found on tropical reefs. Few cleaner wrasses have been observed being eaten by predators, possibly because parasite removal is more important for predator survival than the short-term gain of eating the cleaner. [19]
The false cleanerfish (Aspidontus taeniatus) is a species of combtooth blenny, a mimic that copies both the dance and appearance of Labroides dimidiatus (the bluestreak cleaner wrasse), a similarly colored species of cleaner wrasse. It likely mimics that species to avoid predation, [2] as well as to occasionally bite the fins of its victims ...
Two bluestreak cleaner wrasses removing dead skin and external parasites from a potato grouper Video of bluestreak cleaner wrasse cleaning the gills of an elongate surgeonfish Cleaner fish are fish that show a specialist feeding strategy [ 1 ] by providing a service to other species, referred to as clients, [ 2 ] by removing dead skin ...
Type species. Labroides paradiseus. Bleeker, 1851 [1] Synonyms [2] Fissilabrus Kner, 1860. Fowlerella J. L. B. Smith, 1957. Labroides is a genus of wrasses native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This genus is collectively known as cleaner wrasses, and its species are cleaner fish. [3]
Cleaning symbiosis is a relationship between a pair of animals of different species, involving the removal and subsequent ingestion of ectoparasites, diseased and injured tissue, and unwanted food items from the surface of the host organism (the client) by the cleaning organism (the cleaner). [5] Its status has been debated by biologists, with ...
Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus): According to a study done in 2019, cleaner wrasses were the first fish observed to pass the mirror test. [53] [54] The bluestreak cleaner wrasse is a tiny tropical reef cleaner fish. Cleaner fish have an adapted evolutionary behavior in which they remove parasites and dead tissue from larger fish.
Isn't that a Hawaiian cleaner wrasse in the picture, i.e., not a bluestreak? Awien 23:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC) I found it at Commons; where it was categorized Labroides dimidiatus.--Gunnar Mikalsen Kvifte 13:50, 29 September 2007 (UTC) I'm sorry, I should have specified the pic at the bottom left, the fish cleaning the Achilles tang.