Cleaning behavior of cleaner wrasse

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Shot Date: 2008/04/26
Shot Location: Maldives

species
Labroides dimidiatus

Key Words
cleaning behavior
cleaner fish
cleaning symbiosis
mutual symbiosis
wrasse


Tetsuo Kuwamura
2012/07/21 submitted


Animalia >Chordata >Osteichthyes >Perciformes >Labridae >Labroides >
or
Animalia >Unidentified >Unidentified >Unidentified >Unidentified >Unidentified >

A coral reef fish Labroides dimidiatus is called the cleaner wrasse. Various kinds of fishes visited the cleaning station of two cleaner wrasses on a coral reef of Maldives, Indian Ocean. The cleaners remove and eat ectoparasites, damaged tissue, skin mucous, etc., while the host fishes can maintain their health. Their relation is mutual symbiosis.

(Data No.momo120719ld01b)

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