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Cleaning Goby

Elacatinus genie

Also known as: Cleaner Goby, Genie's Cleaning Goby, Gudgeon, Neon Goby

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2015
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@fishx6 · Bonaire - Small Wall, Caribbean Netherlands · November 20101 / 3
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Overview

Found singly or in pairs, on live corals, at cleaning stations waiting for customers.

Cleaner gobies stay around "cleaning stations" where they wait around for fish to come along to be cleaned by removing ectoparasites from their bodies.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
stripes
Behaviour
cleanercleaning stationpairssolitary

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Central Atlantic, Caribbean
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Found singly or in pairs, on live corals, at cleaning stations waiting for customers.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderGobiiformes
    5. familyGobiidae
    6. genusElacatinus
    7. speciesElacatinus genie (Böhlke & Robins, 1968)

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