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Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse

Labroides dimidiatus

Also known as: Bluecleaner Wrasse, Bluestreak, Bluestreak Cleanerfish, Bridled Beauty, Bridled Beauty Cleanerfish, Cleanerfish, Cleaner Wrasse, Common Cleaner Wrasse, Dental-floss Cleanerfish, Gadfly Fish, Haremic Cleaner Wrasse, Striped Cleaner Wrasse

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2010
LIFE STAGE
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Juvenile
@fishx6 · Makunudhoo Island Resort, Maldives · August 20061 / 2

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Overview

Juveniles are black with a vivid blue stripe along the back and over the top of the head, quite unlike the white-bodied adult. They switch to the adult pattern at about 4 to 5 cm. The colouring appears to deter predators, and young false cleanerfish copy the same look.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
blue stripe
Behaviour
cleanercleaning stationpairsschoolingsolitary

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Habitat & where to find it

Where the juvenile stage lives, and where its photos were taken.

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
  • Country only · 2
RANGE
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Juvenile photos 2

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    ALL STAGES
    FOR THE MARINE-BIOLOGY CURIOUS

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familyLabridae
    6. genusLabroides
    7. speciesLabroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839)

    SourcesWoRMSFishBase

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