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A cleaning station is a location where fish, sea turtles, hippos and other aquatic life, freshwater and marine, congregate to be cleaned. The cleaning process includes the removal of parasites from the animal's body (both externally and internally), and can be performed by various creatures (including cleaner shrimp and numerous species of cleaner fish, especially wrasses and gobies (Elacatinus ''spp''.)). When the animal approaches a cleaning station, it will open its mouth wide or position its body in such a way as to signal that it needs cleaning. The cleaner fish will then remove and eat the parasites from the skin, even swimming into the mouth and gills of any fish being cleaned. This is a form of cleaning symbiosis. Cleaning stations may be associated with coral reefs, located either on top of a coral head or in a slot between two outcroppings. Other cleaning stations may be located under large clumps of floating seaweed or at an accepted point in a river or lagoon. Some species of combtooth blenny, most notably the false cleanerfish, mimic the appearance and behaviour of cleaners, then tear away scales or flesh when suitably close to the victim. ==Gallery== File:Stenopus hispidus (Banded cleaner shrimp).jpg|''Stenopus hispidus'' banded cleaner shrimp on a ''Xestospongia muta'' barrel sponge: The shrimp wait to remove external parasites and dead skin from visiting fish clients. File:Cleaning station parot.jpg|A parrotfish being cleaned by Hawaiian cleaner wrasses, ''Labroides phthirophagus'' (photographed in 2005 in Hawaii) File:Needlefish is being cleaned by Labroides phthirophagus.jpg|A needlefish being cleaned by ''L. phthirophagus'' File:Cleaner inside gill.JPG|A Hawaiian cleaner wrasse inside the gill of a pufferfish File:Naso lituratus and Labroides phthirophagus.jpg|An orangespine unicornfish being cleaned by a Hawaiian cleaner wrasse File:Naso lituratus Novaculichthys taeniourus and Labroides phthirophagus.jpg|A rockmover wrasse gets cleaned by a Hawaiian cleaner wrasse while an orangespine unicornfish waits its turn File:Mulloidichthys flavolineatus at cleaning station.jpg|A goatfish, ''Mulloidichthys flavolineatus'', at Kona, Hawaii, being cleaned by two Hawaiian cleaner wrasses 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「cleaning station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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