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Bluestreak cleaner wrasse

Labroides dimidiatus

Eight centimetres long, and large predators queue up for its services.

How often
Common
Group
Fish
Visible while snorkelling
Visible while snorkelling
Photograph of Bluestreak cleaner wrasse, scientific name Labroides dimidiatus, one of the species divers meet on the Red Sea reefs near Hurghada
Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0

A small blue and black fish that runs a cleaning station on the reef, eating parasites and dead tissue off other fish. Clients arrive, adopt a still posture with fins spread and gills open, and wait their turn, including groupers and morays that would eat the cleaner in any other context.

The station is a fixed location that the same wrasse works for years, and the reef's fish know exactly where it is.

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