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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.
The fish is endemic to Hawaii. These cleaner fish inhabit coral reefs, setting up a territory referred to as a cleaning station. They obtain a diet of small crustacean parasites by removing them from other reef fish in a cleaning symbiosis.
I suggest merging into cleaner fish - that article itself is in need of greater detail. Richard001 08:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC) []. Edit: Ah, I speak too soon... Since there are non-fish 'cleaners', what it really needs to be merged into is a more general article on the concept, but I can't find anything else, and cleaner (disambiguation) didn't list anything until I added it myself.
Fish Cleaning Station Original Not an edit of the first image,but original image taken before the nominated one Cropped of the second image Reason Fascinating, underwater image taken in a wild and showing a really interesting, rarely photographed behavior.