This document summarizes information about the cleaning fish, also known as the blue streak wrasse. It is about 10 cm in size and lives on Indo-Pacific coral reefs. It plays an important ecological role by attracting larger fish and removing parasites and diseased tissue from their mouths and gills. Its distinctive color pattern of blue with a black stripe makes it uniquely suited to this cleaning function.

1. Cleaning fish
By:E.W

2. About Cleaning fish
• Size: 10 cm
Habitat: Indo-Pacific coral reefs, from Queensland
and the South Seas to the Red Sea
• This fish is more commonly known as the blue
streak wrasse.
• FAMILY: Labridae (wrasses)
GENUS/SPECIES: Labroides dimidiatus

3. Design
• This fish is called a cleaner fish because it
attracts larger fish to its cleaning station
where the larger fish are cleaned.
• The cleaner fish enters the other fish’s mouth
and gill openings to remove parasites and
diseased tissue.
• This important role is uniquely given to this
animal by its Creator to supply it with food, as
well as other fish with a “doctor.”

4. Features
• The smooth, elongated body of the cleaner
fish has very small scales that are brilliant blue
with a band of black that runs from the snout
to the tail.
• This fish has a small mouth with protruding
lips and teeth.

5. Fun Facts
• The cleaner fish will actually go to sleep at
night. It retires to a small hole in the reef and
sometimes covers itself with mucus.
• They have ability for a female fish to change
into a male

6. THE END
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