Blue-lined Sabertooth Blenny

Blue-lined Sabertooth Blenny
Blue-lined Sabertooth Blenny
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Plagiotremus
Species: P. rhinorhynchos
Binomial name
Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos
Bleeker, 1852

Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos, known commonly as the Bluestriped fangblenny, Bluestriped blenny, Bluestriped sabretooth blenny, Blunt-nose blenny, Cleaner mimic, Tube-worm blenny, or the Two-stripe blenny,[1] is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian ocean.[2] Some research has suggested that they resemble the bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) juveniles so that they can hang around cleaner stations and dupe clients waiting to be cleaned.[3]

Blue-lined Sabertooth Blenny Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos in the rock hole

References

  1. ^ Common names for Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ^ Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos at www.fishbase.org.
  3. ^ Johnson, M.L. & Hull, S. (2006). Interactions between fangblennies (Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos) and their potential victims: fooling the model rather than the client? Marine Biology 148: 889-897
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