Labroides
| Labroides | |
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| Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse (L. dimidiatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Labroides Bleeker, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Labroides paradiseus Bleeker, 1851[1]
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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]
Species[]
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]
- Labroides bicolor Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1928 (bicolor cleaner wrasse)
- Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839) (bluestreak cleaner wrasse)
- J. E. Randall & V. G. Springer, 1975 (blackspot cleaner wrasse)
- Labroides phthirophagus J. E. Randall, 1958 (Hawaiian cleaner wrasse)
- J. E. Randall, 1958 (redlip cleaner wrasse)
References[]
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Labroides". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Labridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Labroides in FishBase. August 2013 version.
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