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A cleaner shrimp services a cardinal fish at its cleaning station on the reef, where other fish are lined up for cleaning. Their red color is not visible underwater so their white limbs contrast highly against their black body to advertise where the cleaning stations are.

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Tim Laman
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A cleaner shrimp services a cardinal fish at its cleaning station on the reef, where other fish are lined up for cleaning. Their red color is not visible underwater so their white limbs contrast highly against their black body to advertise where the cleaning stations are.