| Labroides | |
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| Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (L. dimidiatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Subfamily: | Julidinae |
| Genus: | Labroides Bleeker, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Labroides paradiseus Bleeker, 18511
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| Synonyms2 | |
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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.3
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:3
| Species | Common name | Image |
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| Labroides bicolor
Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1928 |
bicolor cleaner wrasse | 
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| Labroides dimidiatus
(Valenciennes, 1839) |
bluestreak cleaner wrasse | 
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| Labroides flammulatus
(Tea, Y. K, 2026)4 |
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| Labroides inopinatus
(Tea, Y. K, 2026)4 |
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| Labroides pectoralis
J. E. Randall & V. G. Springer, 1975 |
blackspot cleaner wrasse | 
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| Labroides phthirophagus
J. E. Randall, 1958 |
Hawaiian cleaner wrasse | 
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| Labroides rubrolabiatus
J. E. Randall, 1958 |
redlip cleaner wrasse | 
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References
References
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Labroides". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- 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.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Labroides". FishBase. August 2013 version.
- 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