Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
Scientific name: Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839)
Overview
The bluestreak cleaner wrasse is one of several species of cleaner wrasses found on coral reefs from Eastern Africa and the Red Sea to French Polynesia. 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. It is also notable for having potentially passed the mirror test.
From the Wikipedia article “Bluestreak cleaner wrasse”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Common names
Also known in English as Blue-streak cleaner wrasse, Blue diesel wrasse, Bluestreak cleanerfish, Bridled beauty, cleaner wrasse, Wrasse.
Names in other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 半帶擬隆鯛, 柳冷仔, 漂漂, 藍倍良, 藍帶裂唇鯛, 裂唇魚
- French
- Nettoyeur à bande bleue, Poisson doctère, Poisson nettoyeur commun
- Indonesian
- Ikan dokter
- Japanese
- ホンソメワケベラ
- Persian
- زمردماهی پاککننده آبی
- Portuguese
- Bodião-limpador
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q2000165, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Bluestreak cleaner wrasse”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026