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dc.contributor.authorKetabi, Ramin
dc.contributor.authorJamili, Shahla
dc.coverage.spatialIranen_US
dc.coverage.spatialPersian Gulfen_US
dc.coverage.spatialKish Islanden_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-19T22:29:48Z
dc.date.available2016-10-19T22:29:48Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1834/9341
dc.description.abstractLabroides dimidiatus, is one of several species of cleaner wrasses found on coral reefs from Eastern Africa and the Red Sea to French Polynesia, for the first time from Iran (Persian Gulf, Kish Island). Like other cleaner wrasses, it eats parasites and dead tissue off larger fishes’ skin in a mutualistic relationship that provides food and protection for the wrasse, and considerable health benefits for the other fishes. Some fish mimic cleaner wrasses. For example, a species of blenny called Aspidontus taeniatus has evolved the same behavior to tear small pieces of flesh from bigger fish. Cleaner wrasses are usually found at cleaning stations. Cleaning stations are occupied by different units of cleaner wrasses, such as a group of youths, a pair of adults, or a group of females accompanied by a dominant male. When visitors come near the cleaning stations, the cleaner wrasses greet the visitors by performing a dance-like motion in which they move their rear up and down. The visitors are referred to as "clients". Blue streak cleaner wrasses clean to consume ectoparasites on client fish for food. The bigger fish recognize them as cleaner fish because they have a lateral stripe along the length of their bodies and by their movement patterns.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIranian Fisheries Science Research Instituteen_US
dc.titleLabroidaes dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839)en_US
dc.typeImages/Videoen_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.publisher.placeTehran, Iranen_US
dc.subject.asfaFish locationen_US
dc.subject.asfaDistributionen_US
dc.subject.asfaIdentificationen_US
dc.subject.asfaIchthyologyen_US
dc.subject.asfaASFA_2015::F::Fisheries biologyen_US
dc.type.refereedNot Knownen_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-01-30T18:48:38Z


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