Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Labridae > Labroides > Labroides dimidiatus

Labroides dimidiatus (cleaner fish; Wrasse; Gadfly fish; Common cleanerfish; Common cleaner wrasse; Cleaner wrasses; Cleaner wrasse; Bridled beauty; Bluestreak cleanerfish; Blue-streak cleaner wrasse; Bluestreak cleaner wrasse; Blue streak; Blue diesel wrasse; Cleanerfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

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 protection for the wrasse, and considerable health benefits for the other fishes.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [2]  4 years
Water Biome [1]  Reef

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    
Ranong   Thailand      
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Rhipidocotyle labroidei[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0