''Labroides'' is a

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s native to the

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and Pacific Oceans. This genus is collectively known as cleaner wrasses, and its species are cleaner fish.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''

Labroides bicolor ''Labroides bicolor'' is a species of wrasse endemic to the Indo-Pacific, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean and is known by various names including bicolor cleanerfish, bicolor cleaner wrasse, bicolored cleaner wrasse, bicolour cleaner wrasse, clean ...

'' Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1928 (bicolor cleaner wrasse) * ''

Labroides dimidiatus The bluestreak cleaner wrasse, ''Labroides dimidiatus'', is one of several species of cleaner wrasses found on coral reefs from Eastern Africa and the Red Sea to French Polynesia. Like other cleaner wrasses, it eats parasites and dead tissue off ...

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, 1839) (bluestreak cleaner wrasse) * '' Labroides pectoralis'' J. E. Randall & V. G. Springer, 1975 (blackspot cleaner wrasse) * ''

Labroides phthirophagus 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 endemism, endemic to Hawaii. These cleaner fish inh ...

'' J. E. Randall, 1958 (Hawaiian cleaner wrasse) * '' Labroides rubrolabiatus'' J. E. Randall, 1958 (redlip cleaner wrasse)

References

Labridae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker {{Labridae-stub