Labroides

Labroides
	Bluestreak cleaner wrasse; (L. dimidiatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Labridae
Subfamily:	Julidinae
Genus:	Labroides; Bleeker, 1851
Type species
	Labroides paradiseus; Bleeker, 1851
Synonyms
	Fissilabrus Kner, 1860; Fowlerella J. L. B. Smith, 1957;

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]


Species	Common name	Image
Labroides bicolor Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1928	bicolor cleaner wrasse
Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839)	bluestreak cleaner wrasse
Labroides flammulatus (Tea, Y. K, 2026)^[4]
Labroides inopinatus (Tea, Y. K, 2026)^[4]
Labroides pectoralis J. E. Randall & V. G. Springer, 1975	blackspot cleaner wrasse
Labroides phthirophagus J. E. Randall, 1958	Hawaiian cleaner wrasse
Labroides rubrolabiatus J. E. Randall, 1958	redlip cleaner wrasse

References

↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Labroides". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Labridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Labroides". FishBase. August 2013 version.
1 2 Tea, Y. K., Baraf, L., Menkara, Y., Ludt, W. B., Allen, G. R., Hobbs, J. P. A., & Cowman, P. F. (2026). Cleaning up the cleaner wrasses: revision of the Labroides phthirophagus and Labroides bicolor species complexes, with rediagnosis of Labroides quadrilineatus and descriptions of two new species (Teleostei: Labridae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 74, 403–443. https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2026-0027

This Labridae article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

[CofFG-1] Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Labroides". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

[CofFF-2] Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Labridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

[FishBase-3] 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Labroides". FishBase. August 2013 version.

[yktea2026-4] 1 2 Tea, Y. K., Baraf, L., Menkara, Y., Ludt, W. B., Allen, G. R., Hobbs, J. P. A., & Cowman, P. F. (2026). Cleaning up the cleaner wrasses: revision of the Labroides phthirophagus and Labroides bicolor species complexes, with rediagnosis of Labroides quadrilineatus and descriptions of two new species (Teleostei: Labridae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 74, 403–443. https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2026-0027

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

Authority control databases
National	Israel
Other	Yale LUX

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Species

References