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  2. Diplecogaster tonstricula - Wikipedia

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    The generic name Diplecogaster is a compound of di meaning "two", pleco meaning "fold" and gaster meaning belly, a reference to the double disked sucker of this genus while the specific name tonstricula is Latin for "little lady barber" and refers to its habit of cleaning larger fish. References

  3. Cleaning station - Wikipedia

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    Cleaning stations may be associated with coral reefs, located either on top of a coral head or in a slot between two outcroppings. Other cleaning stations may be located under large clumps of floating seaweed or at an accepted point in a river or lagoon. Cleaning stations are an exhibition of mutualism . Cleaner fish also obviously impact ...

  4. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid - Wikipedia

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    Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid ( EDTA ), also called EDTA acid after its own abbreviation, is an aminopolycarboxylic acid with the formula [CH 2 N (CH 2 CO 2 H) 2] 2. This white, water-insoluble solid is widely used to bind to iron (Fe 2+ /Fe 3+) and calcium ions (Ca 2+ ), forming water-soluble complexes even at neutral pH.

  5. False cleanerfish - Wikipedia

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    The false cleanerfish ( Aspidontus taeniatus) is a species of combtooth blenny, a mimic that copies both the dance and appearance of Labroides dimidiatus (the bluestreak cleaner wrasse), a similarly colored species of cleaner wrasse. It likely mimics that species to avoid predation, [2] as well as to occasionally bite the fins of its victims ...

  6. Cleaning symbiosis - Wikipedia

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    Cleaning symbiosis is a mutually beneficial association between individuals of two species, where one (the cleaner) removes and eats parasites and other materials from the surface of the other (the client). Cleaning symbiosis is well-known among marine fish, where some small species of cleaner fish, notably wrasses but also species in other ...

  7. Cleaner fish - Wikipedia

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    Cleaner fish. Cleaner fish are fish that show a specialist feeding strategy [1] by providing a service to other species, referred to as clients, [2] by removing dead skin, ectoparasites, and infected tissue from the surface or gill chambers. [2] This example of cleaning symbiosis represents mutualism and cooperation behaviour, [3] an ecological ...

  8. Bluestreak cleaner wrasse - Wikipedia

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    Bluestreak cleaner wrasses clean to consume ectoparasites on client fish for food. The bigger fish recognise them as cleaner fish because they have a lateral stripe along the length of their bodies, and by their movement patterns. Cleaner wrasses greet visitors in an effort to secure the food source and cleaning opportunity with the client.

  9. DDT - Wikipedia

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    Properties and chemistry DDT is similar in structure to the insecticide methoxychlor and the acaricide dicofol. It is highly hydrophobic and nearly insoluble in water but has good solubility in most organic solvents, fats and oils. DDT does not occur naturally and is synthesised by consecutive Friedel–Crafts reactions between chloral (CCl 3 CHO) and two equivalents of chlorobenzene (C 6 H 5 ...

  10. Wax tablet - Wikipedia

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    A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych. It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. Cicero 's letters make passing reference to the use of cerae, and some examples of wax-tablets have been ...

  11. Crimson cleaner fish - Wikipedia

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    Crimson cleaner fish. The crimson cleaner fish ( Suezichthys aylingi ), or butcher's dick in Australia, [2] is a species of wrasse native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean around Australia and New Zealand. This species inhabits patches of sand on reefs at depths of from 6 to 100 metres (20 to 328 ft). It is a cleaner fish.