In the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse, there is only one male for every group of 6-8 females.

The "resident fish doctor and dentist on the reef is the bluestreak cleaner wrasse".

This makes it resemble the bluestreak cleaner wrasse, a helpful fish that spends its days eating the parasites off the skin of other fish.

The bluestreak cleaner wrasse, 'Labroides dimidiatus' is one of the most common cleaners found on tropical reefs.

This ray has been observed soliciting cleanings from the bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) by raising the margins of its disc and pelvic fins.

This species has been observed being attended by cleaner shrimp (Leander urocaridella, Stenopus hispidus) and bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus).

However, one species of cleaner, the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), is the unknowing model of a mimetic species, the Sabre-toothed blenny (Aspidontus taeniatus).

One species of cleaner, the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), shown to the right cleaning a grouper, lives in coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

An underachieving bluestreak cleaner wrasse named Oscar (Will Smith) is fantasized about being rich and famous while making his way to work by following in his dad's footsteps as a tongue scrubber at the local Whale Wash.

The other main concern, besides avoiding predators, is health, which can only be repaired by finding a bluestreak cleaner wrasse while playing as a diurnal fish, or a banded coral shrimp while playing as a nocturnal fish, and moving next to it.

The sabre-toothed blenny (Aspidontus taeniatus) is a predatory blenny, an aggressive mimic which accurately resembles the bluestreak cleaner wrasse, not only in colour and pattern, but also in the ritualised dance the cleaner wrasse makes when potential client fish swim nearby.

The bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) is one of several species of cleaner wrasse found on coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and much of the Pacific Ocean, as well as many seas, including the Red Sea and those around Southeast Asia.

Geographic variation in the behaviour of the cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus (Labridae).

Cleaning While Eating Labroides dimidiatus is the car wash of the coral reef.

Figure 8.7 The coral reef inhabiting wrasse Labroides dimidiatus is a cleaner fish.

The bluestreak cleaner wrasse, 'Labroides dimidiatus' is one of the most common cleaners found on tropical reefs.

There is a record of a bowmouth guitarfish being cleaned by bluestreak cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus).

It mimics Labroides dimidiatus, the cleaner wrasse, and feeds on the fins of fish that mistake it for the cleaner wrasse.

This ray has been observed soliciting cleanings from the bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) by raising the margins of its disc and pelvic fins.

This species has been observed being attended by cleaner shrimp (Leander urocaridella, Stenopus hispidus) and bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus).

Polygyny in which most females mate with only one male occurs when the females live in 'harems', as, for example in a species of fish, the wrasse Labroides dimidiatus (Figure 8.7).

However, one species of cleaner, the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), is the unknowing model of a mimetic species, the Sabre-toothed blenny (Aspidontus taeniatus).

One species of cleaner, the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), shown to the right cleaning a grouper, lives in coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Many cleaner fish in different families, such as the Caribbean neon goby (Elacatinus evelynae) and the cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), share the distinctive combination of a long narrow body, a longitudinal stripe, a blue colour, and small size.

At Malapascua Island in the Philippines, pelagic threshers have been observed regularly visiting cleaning stations occupied by cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus and Thalassoma lunare), during which they exhibit characteristic behaviors to facilitate the cleaning interaction.

The bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) is one of several species of cleaner wrasse found on coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and much of the Pacific Ocean, as well as many seas, including the Red Sea and those around Southeast Asia.