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Hawaiian cleaner wrasse
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<p>The Hawaiian cleaner wrasse or golden cleaner wrasse (<i>Labroides phthirophagus</i>), is a species of <a href="/facts/Wrasse/gleyUjKA">wrasse</a> (<a href="/facts/Genus/m8EFjSms">genus</a> <i><a href="/facts/Labroides/1ntc5MmG">Labroides</a></i>) found in the waters surrounding the <a href="/facts/Hawaiian_Islands/Q38KXboy">Hawaiian Islands</a>. The fish is <a href="/facts/Endemism/xt4IpIsl">endemic</a> to Hawaii. These <a href="/facts/Cleaner_fish/kpFsGDtW">cleaner fish</a> inhabit coral reefs, setting up a territory referred to as a <a href="/facts/Cleaning_station/BVPAYYup">cleaning station</a>. They obtain a diet of small crustacean parasites by removing them from other reef fish in a <a href="/facts/Cleaning_symbiosis/T3GqUH3P">cleaning symbiosis</a>. </p>