Sentences with phrase «cleaner wrasse»

This site is known as a cleaning station and is where enormous manta rays come to be rid of their parasites and cleaned by certain species of fish, usually cleaner wrasse.

Tiny cleaner wrasse along with angelfish, damselfish and tangs nibble at the Honu while they hover over the coral heads.

They can often be seen at cleaning stations with attendant cleaner wrasse.

During the 30 minute «Snorkel Safari» you'll learn how the reef was formed, how coral feeds, grows and breeds as well as seeing some very special inhabitants - from parrotfish to magnificent anemones, cleaner wrasse and of course, anemone fish (Nemo!).

During the 30 minute «Snorkel Safari» you'll learn how the reef was formed, how coral feeds, grows and breeds as well as seeing some very special inhabitants - from parrotfish to magnificent anemones, cleaner wrasse and of course, anemonefish (nemo!).

Binning and her team found that sick seafish can get well again by seeking out other animals like the blue - streaked «cleaner wrasse,» a common aquarium fish that eats harmful parasites off their «clients,» helping keep them healthy.

However, this vital role in maintaining healthy reef communities may be under threat: cleaner wrasse are among the top marine fishes caught for the aquarium industry, due to their colourful patterns and charismatic behaviour.

«We collected wild damselfish with or without access to cleaner wrasse and tested their ability to solve a feeding test in the lab.»

Bluestreak cleaner wrasse have small home territories called cleaning stations.

All bluestreak cleaner wrasse are born female.

The cleaner wrasse stroke their clients to cement the relationship and ensure that they don't attack them.

These clients recognise cleaner wrasse by their small size and the blue stripe running along their sides.

«Parasitic worms (Digenea: Bucephalidae) found in the cleaning wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus».

Not exact matches

In Norway, more than half the supply of another cleaner fish — called lumpfish — comes from hatcheries, although the species are easier to breed in captivity than wrasse.

It offers crystal clear waters and huge colorful schools of creole wrasse and yellowtail snappers hanging out at cleaning stations.

A dramatic wall starts at depths of 10 feet and plunges to more than 200, but even more impressive are the huge schools of jacks that blanket the wall in a living curtain, and the numerous grouper and large wrasse that congregate at cleaning stations.

Several «cleaning stations» dot the reef and big groupers and snappers settle down to be picked clean by neon gobies, Pederson cleaner shrimp and juvenile bluehead wrasse.

This site is famous for large schools of yellowtail snappers and Creole wrasse either out in mid-water or cruising along the wall in and around cleaning stations.