The wrasse halichoeres cyanocephalus (labridae) as a specialized cleaner fish

摘要

Cleaning symbiosis in fishes involves feeding by microcarnivores, the cleaners, on ectoparasites and other material form the body surface of cooperating hosts, the clients (Losey, 1987). Cleaning wrasses (Labridae) are well known components of reef commu- nities and range from highly specialized cleaners of the genus Labroides (Youngbluth, 1968; Potts, 1973) to less specialized cleaners in the genera Bodianus, Semicossyphus, and Thalassoma, which clena mostly as juveniles (Hobson, 1968, 1974; Itzkowitz, 1979; Johnson and Ruber, 1988; Van Tassell et al. 1994).