A brilliantly-coloured oriental sweetlips fish (Plectorhinchus vittatus) waits while two boldly-patterned cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) pick parasites from its skin. The spotted tail and fin pattern …

Labroides bicolor is a species of wrasse endemic to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It is known by various names including bicolor cleanerfish, bicolor (ed) cleaner wrasse, cleaner …

The following is a selection of some of the many marine cleaner species. Commonly studied cleaner fish are the cleaner wrasse of the genus Labroides found on coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and …

The Hawaiian cleaner wrasse or golden cleaner wrasse (Labroides phthirophagus), is a species of wrasse (genus Labroides) found in the waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands. The fish is …

It features vibrant coloring with yellowish-orange behind blue iridescent spots. Also a carnivorous fish, blue-spotted jawfish primarily eat small invertebrates, zooplankton, and occasionally ...

Cleaner wrasse Hawaiian cleaner wrasses working on gill area of dragon wrasse Novaculichthys taeniourus, on a reef in Hawaii Cleaner wrasses are the best-known of the cleaner fish. They live …

Other fish that engage in such cleaning behavior include goby fish (Elacatinus spp.) [14] The bluestreak cleaner wrasse is known to clean balaenopteridae, chondrichthyans, homaridae, …

Fish coloration, a subset of animal coloration, is extremely diverse. Fish across all taxa vary greatly in their coloration through special mechanisms, mainly pigment cells called chromatophores. [1]