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]

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

Species

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

A bicolor cleaner wrasse (Labroides bicolor) cleaning Mulloidichthys flavolineatus.
  • Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839) (bluestreak cleaner wrasse)
  • Labroides pectoralis J. E. Randall & V. G. Springer, 1975 (blackspot cleaner wrasse)
  • Labroides phthirophagus J. E. Randall, 1958 (Hawaiian cleaner wrasse)
  • Labroides rubrolabiatus J. E. Randall, 1958 (redlip cleaner wrasse)
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References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Labroides". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  2. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Labridae genera". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Labroides in FishBase. August 2013 version.


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