Labroides
| Labroides | |
|---|---|
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| Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse (L. dimidiatus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Labroides Bleeker, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Labroides paradiseus Bleeker, 1851 | |
| Synonyms | |
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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.[1]
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Labroides bicolor Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1928 (bicolor cleaner wrasse)
A bicolor cleaner wrasse (Labroides bicolor) cleaning Mulloidichthys flavolineatus.
- Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839) (bluestreak cleaner wrasse)
- Labroides pectoralis J. E. Randall & V. G. Springer, 1975 (blackspot cleaner wrasse)
- Labroides phthirophagus J. E. Randall, 1958 (Hawaiian cleaner wrasse)
- Labroides rubrolabiatus J. E. Randall, 1958 (redlip cleaner wrasse)
References
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Labroides in FishBase. August 2013 version.
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