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Labroides
''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 Cleaner fish are fish that show a specialist feeding strategy by providing a service to other species, referred to as clients, by removing dead skin, ectoparasites, and infected tissue from the surface or gill chambers. This example of cleaning .... Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: References Labridae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker {{Labridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labroides Dimidiatus
The bluestreak cleaner wrasse (''Labroides dimidiatus'') is one of several species of cleaner wrasses found on coral reefs from East Africa, Eastern Africa and the Red Sea to French Polynesia. Like other cleaner wrasses, it eats parasites and dead Tissue (biology), tissue off larger fishes' skin in a Mutualism (biology), mutualistic relationship that provides food and protection for the wrasse, and considerable health benefits for the other fishes. It is also notable for having potentially passed the Mirror test#Fish, mirror test, though this is not without controversy. Taxonomy A genetic analysis of ''L. dimidiatus'' revealed the population fell into two Monophyly, monophyletic clades, with Indian Ocean populations generally having different stripe widths to western Pacific Ocean, Pacific fishes. The Japanese Wrasse, cleaner wrasses, though, fell within the same group as Indian Ocean fish, despite differing in appearance, and both clades overlap around Papua New Guinea. Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labroides Bicolor1 (cropped)
''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 Cleaner fish are fish that show a specialist feeding strategy by providing a service to other species, referred to as clients, by removing dead skin, ectoparasites, and infected tissue from the surface or gill chambers. This example of cleaning .... Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: References Labridae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker {{Labridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labroides Bicolor
''Labroides bicolor'' is a species of wrasse endemic to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It is known by various names including bicolor cleanerfish, bicolor(ed) cleaner wrasse, cleaner wrasse, two-color cleaner wrasse and yellow diesel wrasse. Description The male is black with light color in the back of the body, the female is gray with black, and juveniles are yellow and black. Distribution and population The countries and territories that it occurs in include American Samoa, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ..., British Indian Ocean Territory, China, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Comoros, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
