#2281 · 🐟 fish

Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse

🇳🇱 Gewone Poetslipvis ·Labroides dimidiatus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

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 larger fishes' skin in a mutualistic relationship that provides food and protection for the wrasse, and considerable health benefits for the other fishes.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,611iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
6,611 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Achille Valenciennes in 1839 (187 years ago).