Asked by Blaine

A cleaner wrasse, a type of cleaner fish, helps other sea creatures by removing parasites, dead skin, and infected tissue from their body. The cleaner wrasse benefits from this relationship because they are provided a food source.

Which of the following is the type of symbiosis represented in this example?


parasitism


mutualism


commensalism


competition

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
mutualism

Both species benefit: the cleaner wrasse gets food, and the client fish gets parasites and dead tissue removed.