Black-spot Cleaner Wrasse
Labroides pectoralis
- Usual depth7–24 m
- Water temperature26–30 °C
- Best monthsApril and June
- How commonOccasional
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Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 14 records
- February: 19 records
- March: 21 records
- April: 119 records
- May: 65 records
- June: 142 records
- July: 14 records
- August: 27 records
- September: 76 records
- October: 41 records
- November: 31 records
- December: 18 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 7–24 m · Deepest record: 40 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 26–30 °C
Photos
(c) Tom Heijnen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist 
(c) Tom Heijnen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) Roger Rittmaster, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
Names and classification
- English
- Black-spot Cleaner Wrasse, Blackspot Cleaner Wrasse, Breastspot Cleanerfish, Breastspot Cleaner Wrasse, Cleaner wrasse, False Bluestreak Wrasse, Gold Barrier Reef Cleaner, Spotbreast Cleanerfish, Yellow Cleaner, Yellow Cleaner Wrasse
Names in 4 more languages
- Spanish
- Lábrido Limpiador Amarillo
- French
- Labre nettoyeur à tache noire
- Japanese
- Sumitsuki-somewakebera, Sumitsukisomewakebera, スミツキソメワケベラ
- Simplified Chinese
- 倍良, 柳冷仔, 胸斑擬隆鯛, 胸斑裂唇魚, 胸斑裂唇鯛, 胸斑裂唇鱼, 魚醫生
Similar species
Bluestreak cleaner wrasseLabroides dimidiatus
Bicolor cleaner wrasseLabroides bicolor
Blue GroperAchoerodus gouldii
Blue GroperAchoerodus viridis
Hawaiian HogfishBodianus albotaeniatus
Tripletail wrasseCheilinus trilobatus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 573 open-data records from 1953 to 2017.
- Species data updated October 30, 2026.
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