[Originally posted to the Moorea Coral Reef LTER (MCR LTER) Marine Life Encyclopedia]
Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse - ‘Atoti
(Labroides
dimidiatus)
Photo by Gerick Bergsma. Text by Tom Adam.
The Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse occupies
territories (often referred to as “cleaner stations”) where it is
visited by a wide variety of different “client” fishes which solicit the
cleaner’s services.
Indo-Pacific:
Red Sea and East Africa to the Line, Marquesan and Ducie islands.
North to southern Japan, south to Australia and Rapa. |
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Coral reefs 1 to 40 meters deep. | |
Feed on external parasites removed from other fishes (primarily parasitic gnathiid isopods). | |
Cleaners avoid becoming lunch for larger piscivorous fish (fish which commonly eat other fish), despite the tendency of cleaners to enter the mouths of some fish while cleaning them. | |
- Fish Base - Tom Adam's PhD Research - Moorea Biocode Database |
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