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Bluestreak cleaner wrasse

Labroides dimidiatus

Description:

To 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.). White to yellowish head and forebody. It becomes bluish toward tail. Stripe from snout becomes progressively wider toward tail. Solitary or in pairs. It stablish cleaning stations, swim with jerky motions to attract clients. All cleaner wrasses start their lives as females. In a group of 6–8 cleaner wrasses there is only one male, the rest are females or juveniles. The strongest female changes its sex when the male dies, an occurrence known as sequential hermaphroditism.

Habitat:

Indo Pacific coral reefs in 2-40 m.

Notes:

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2 Comments

The MnMs
The MnMs 10 years ago

Thanks Sargon. These wrasses are all alike each other. Is so nice to see them work! :-)

SargonR
SargonR 10 years ago

Love it! He is like a blue version of the Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse we have here (which is purple).

The MnMs
Spotted by
The MnMs

Negros Oriental, Philippines

Spotted on Oct 1, 2006
Submitted on Dec 3, 2012

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