Labroides

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Labroides

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.[3]

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Labroides
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Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
(L. dimidiatus)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Tribe: Julidini
Genus: Labroides
Bleeker, 1851
Type species
Labroides paradiseus
Bleeker, 1851[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Fissilabrus Kner, 1860
  • Fowlerella J. L. B. Smith, 1957
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Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]

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A bicolor cleaner wrasse (L. bicolor) cleaning a yellow stripe goatfish.
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Species Common Name Image
Labroides bicolor

Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1928

bicolor cleaner wrasse Thumb
Labroides dimidiatus

(Valenciennes, 1839)

bluestreak cleaner wrasse Thumb
Labroides pectoralis

J. E. Randall & V. G. Springer, 1975

blackspot cleaner wrasse Thumb
Labroides phthirophagus

J. E. Randall, 1958

Hawaiian cleaner wrasse Thumb
Labroides rubrolabiatus

J. E. Randall, 1958

redlip cleaner wrasse Thumb
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References

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