Bluestreak Cleaner Wrassesare best-known for the fact that they live
in a cleaning symbiosis with larger –often
predatory– fish.
They
groom
those larger fish and benefit from this by
feeding on any parasites and dead skin tissue,
that they remove
from them.
Bluestreak
Cleaner Wrasse
Bluestreak
Cleaner Wrasse
Adults are
silvery-white, often with a yellow back and head, and a black lateral stripe
along the length of the body, that becomes wider towards the tail (fig.).
The odd and somewhat
larger individual in this small group of Cleaner
Wrasses is a
Bicolour Cleaner Wrasse (fig.).