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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 ...
Cleaner fish. 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, ectoparasites, and infected tissue from the surface or gill chambers. [ 2 ] This example of cleaning symbiosis represents mutualism and cooperation behaviour, [ 3 ] an ...
Species of the genera Aspidontus and Plagiotremus (such as the false cleanerfish) are noted for their cunning mimicry of cleaner wrasses: by imitating the latter's colour, form, and behaviour, the blennies are able to trick other fish (or even divers) into letting down their guard, long enough for the blennies to nip a quick mouthful of skin or ...
The false cleanerfish, Aspidontus taeniatus, is a fin-eating blenny that has evolved to resemble a local species of cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, which engages in mutualistic cleaning with larger fish. By closely mimicking the coloration and the cleaner fish's distinctive dancing display, false cleanerfish are able to remain in close ...
False cleanerfish; From scientific name of a fish: This is a redirect from a scientific name of a fish (or group of fish) to a vernacular ("common") name.
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 ...
List of reef fish of the Red Sea. These Red Sea fish are listed as Reef -associated by Fishbase : Acanthuridae. Acanthurus gahhm, Black surgeonfish. Acanthurus mata, Elongate surgeonfish. Acanthurus nigrofuscus, Brown surgeonfish. Acanthurus sohal, Sohal surgeonfish. Acanthurus tennentii, Doubleband surgeonfish.
From South Africa: Algoa Bay, off Durban, and Sodwana Bay. one record west of Cape Point) [3] Slender tuna, Allothunnus fallai Serventy, 1948 (Worldwide between 20° and 50° S. From South Africa: Miller's Point and Rooikrans in False Bay) [3] Bullet tuna, Auxis rochei Risso, 1810 (Cosmopolitan in warm waters.