Labroides

Labroides
Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
(L. dimidiatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Subfamily: Julidinae
Genus: Labroides
Bleeker, 1851
Type species
Labroides paradiseus
Bleeker, 1851
Synonyms
  • Fissilabrus Kner, 1860
  • Fowlerella J. L. B. Smith, 1957

Labroides is a genus of wrasses native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This genus is collectively known as cleaner wrasses, and its species are cleaner fish.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

A bicolor cleaner wrasse (L. bicolor) cleaning a yellow stripe goatfish.
Species Common name Image
Labroides bicolor

Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1928

 bicolor cleaner wrasse
Labroides dimidiatus

(Valenciennes, 1839)

 bluestreak cleaner wrasse
Labroides flammulatus

(Tea, Y. K, 2026)
Labroides inopinatus

(Tea, Y. K, 2026)
Labroides pectoralis

J. E. Randall & V. G. Springer, 1975

 blackspot cleaner wrasse
Labroides phthirophagus

J. E. Randall, 1958

 Hawaiian cleaner wrasse
Labroides rubrolabiatus

J. E. Randall, 1958

 redlip cleaner wrasse

References

  1. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Labroides". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  2. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Labridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  3. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Labroides". FishBase. August 2013 version.
  4. 1 2 Tea, Y. K., Baraf, L., Menkara, Y., Ludt, W. B., Allen, G. R., Hobbs, J. P. A., & Cowman, P. F. (2026). Cleaning up the cleaner wrasses: revision of the Labroides phthirophagus and Labroides bicolor species complexes, with rediagnosis of Labroides quadrilineatus and descriptions of two new species (Teleostei: Labridae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 74, 403–443. https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2026-0027