Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 14 cm
- 🌊 lagoons and reef slopes, cleaning stations
The bicolor cleaner wrasse runs « cleaning stations » on the reef: it starts to dance and big fish come to have their parasites cleaned. Its body is dark blue, with a yellow tail and rear.
Did you know?
Large predators, even sharks and moray eels, respect the cleaner and let it enter their mouths.
Source: Dive observations
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Nettoyeur bicolore.
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