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  2. False cleanerfish - Wikipedia

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    The false cleanerfish primarily lives in coral reef margins among the cleaning stations of the bluestreak cleaner wrasse ( Labroides dimidiatus ), [2] and are usually seen near locations of one or more L. dimidiatus. [6] With its territory primarily overlapping with its model fish, the false cleanerfish mimics both the appearance and ...

  3. Cleaner shrimp - Wikipedia

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    In many coral reefs, cleaner shrimp congregate at cleaning stations. In this behaviour cleaner shrimps are similar to cleaner fish , and sometimes may join with cleaner wrasse and other cleaner fish attending to client fish.

  4. Hawaiian cleaner wrasse - Wikipedia

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    Both species operate cleaning stations where larger fish (clients) visit and cooperate in the removal by the cleaner fish of their ectoparasites, loose flakes of skin and mucus. The arrangement is mutually beneficial , with the client fish having its parasites removed and the wrasse gaining protection and finding an easy meal.

  5. Diversity of fish - Wikipedia

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    These two small wrasses are cleaner fish, which eat parasites off other fish. Cleaning station: A reef manta ray at a cleaning station, maintaining a near stationary position atop a coral patch for several minutes while being cleaned by cleaner fishes. Doctor fish: Doctor fish nibbling on the diseased skin of patients.

  6. Wrasse - Wikipedia

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    "Client" fish congregate at wrasse "cleaning stations" and wait for the cleaner fish to remove gnathiid parasites, the cleaners even swimming into their open mouths and gill cavities to do so. A single wrasse works for around four hours a day and in that time can inspect more than 2,000 clients.

  7. Fish diseases and parasites - Wikipedia

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    These small fish maintain so-called "cleaning stations" where other fish, known as hosts, will congregate and perform specific movements to attract the attention of the cleaner fish.