...Vikram B. Baliga; Ze'ev J. Bernstein; Shivani Sundaram; Rita S. Mehta ABSTRACT Cleaning, a dietary strategy in which mucus or ectoparasites are removed and consumed off other taxa, is performed facultatively or obligately in a variety of species. We explored whether species in the Labridae (wrasses...

... wrasses (Labridae). As these fishes predominately capture prey via biting, we modeled bite force using MandibLever (v3.3) to create an ontogenetic trajectory of bite force for each species. Our results indicate that cleaner fishes in Thalassoma , as juveniles, possess jaws with low mobility that exhibit...