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Fairy Basslet

Gramma loreto

Also known as: Bicolor Fairy Basslet, Cleanerfish, Royal Gramma, Royal Gramma Basslet

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2015
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@fishx6 · Bonaire - Small Wall, Caribbean Netherlands · November 20101 / 7
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Overview

Found close to ceilings of caves, under ledges, or close to recesses in corals, sometimes swimming upside down, retreating into these recesses when threatened. Will also act as a cleaner fish to others.

Some of these colorful Basslets are successfully, kept in marine aquariums

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
black spot
Head & Mouth
black eye stripe
Behaviour
cleanerhidesshelters in cavesupside down

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Central Atlantic
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Found close to ceilings of caves, under ledges, or close to recesses in corals, sometimes swimming upside down, retreating into these recesses when threatened.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderOvalentaria incertae sedis
    5. familyGrammatidae
    6. genusGramma
    7. speciesGramma loreto Poey, 1868

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