Bluestriped Fangblenny
Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,005
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos, commonly called the bluestriped fangblenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Ocean. This species reaches a length of 12 centimetres (4.7 in) SL. It is also known as the bluestriped blenny, bluestriped sabretooth blenny, blunt-nose blenny, cleaner mimic, tube-worm blenny or the two-stripe blenny. They hide in deserted worm tubes or other small holes. The fangblenny is a specialised mimic of juvenile bluestreak cleaner wrasse. Those fish serve as cleaners to larger host fish, which attend to have ectoparasites removed. The fangblenny does no cleaning, but bites the host fish and leaves.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bluestriped fangblenny”.