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Title: Manta Cleaning Station, Maldives
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A pair of reef manta (Mobula alfredi) visiting a cleaning station on a coral reef with a school of onespot snappers (Lutjanus monostigma), oriental sweetlips (Plectorhinchus vittatus) and sabre squirrelfish (Sargocentron spiniferum). South Ari Atoll, Maldives. Indian Ocean.
Note that the manta ray has been recently reclassified into the genus Mobula (Whyte et al., 2017).
Note that the manta ray has been recently reclassified into the genus Mobula (Whyte et al., 2017).
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- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- coral reef
- Fishes
- Holocentridae
- Indian Ocean
- Maldives
- Marine Life
- North Ari Atoll
- onespot snapper: Lutjanus monostigma
- oriental sweetlips: Plectorhinchus vittatus
- reef manta: reef manta ray: Mobula alfredi
- sabre squirrelfish: Sargocentron spiniferum
- Snappers: Lutjanidae
- Sweetlips: Haemulidae
- tropical
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