# Labroides

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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| image = Ladim u0.gif
| image_caption = Bluestreak cleaner wrasse<br>''(L. dimidiatus)''
| taxon = Labroides
| authority = [Bleeker](/source/Pieter_Bleeker), 1851
| type_species = ''[Labroides paradiseus](/source/Labroides_dimidiatus)''
| type_species_authority = Bleeker, 1851<ref name = CofFG>{{Cof record|genid=2108|title=''Labroides''|access-date=13 January 2020}}</ref>
| synonyms = * ''Fissilabrus'' <small>Kner, 1860</small>
* ''Fowlerella'' <small>J. L. B. Smith, 1957</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name = CofFF>{{Cof family|family=Labridae|access-date=13 January 2020}}</ref>
}}

'''''Labroides''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [wrasse](/source/wrasse)s native to the [Indian](/source/Indian_Ocean) and [Pacific](/source/Pacific) Oceans.  This genus is collectively known as '''cleaner wrasses''', and its species are [cleaner fish](/source/cleaner_fish).<ref name=FishBase/>

==Species==
The currently recognized species in this genus are:<ref name=FishBase>{{FishBase genus | genus = Labroides| month = August | year = 2013}}</ref>[[Image:Labroides bicolor en train de déparasiter Mulloidichthys flavolineatus.jpg|thumb|right|A bicolor cleaner wrasse (''[L. bicolor](/source/Labroides_bicolor)'') cleaning a [yellow stripe goatfish](/source/Mulloidichthys_flavolineatus).|234x234px]]
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Species
!Common name
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|''[Labroides bicolor](/source/Labroides_bicolor)'' 
<small>[Fowler](/source/Henry_Weed_Fowler) & [B. A. Bean](/source/Barton_Appler_Bean), 1928</small>
|bicolor cleaner wrasse
|frameless
|-
|''[Labroides dimidiatus](/source/Labroides_dimidiatus)'' 
<small>([Valenciennes](/source/Achille_Valenciennes), 1839)</small>
|bluestreak cleaner wrasse
|frameless
|-
|''[Labroides flammulatus](/source/Labroides_flammulatus)'' 
<small>([Tea, Y. K](/source/Tea%2C_Y._K), 2026)</small><ref name="yktea2026">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</ref>
|
|thumb|
|-
|''[Labroides inopinatus](/source/Labroides_inopinatus)'' 
<small>([Tea, Y. K](/source/Tea%2C_Y._K), 2026)</small><ref name="yktea2026"/>
|
|thumb|
|-
|''[Labroides pectoralis](/source/Labroides_pectoralis)'' 
<small>[J. E. Randall](/source/John_Ernest_Randall) & [V. G. Springer](/source/Victor_Gruschka_Springer), 1975</small>
|blackspot cleaner wrasse
|frameless
|-
|''[Labroides phthirophagus](/source/Labroides_phthirophagus)'' 
<small>J. E. Randall, 1958</small>
|Hawaiian cleaner wrasse
|frameless
|-
|''[Labroides rubrolabiatus](/source/Labroides_rubrolabiatus)'' 
<small>J. E. Randall, 1958</small>
|redlip cleaner wrasse
|frameless
|}
==References==
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Category:Labroides
Category:Labridae
Category:Marine fish genera
Category:Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker

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